Transparencies to digital
I have made this gizmo to enable transfer of slides to digital JPEG images
The gizmo fits over my camera lens it is kept in position by using rubber bands.
My camera is an S5700, after a lot of trial and error, after placing slide in gizmo window, slide is photographed in Super macro mode dial setting to N flash off in full, summer sunlight against a white card board (there are alternative settings).
After taking shot it can be cropped on camera to give conventional appearance (some fish eye effect is apparent on the raw shot.)
The 'Fish eye effect' canbe enhancing on some shots, also at max resolution 7M,pix, after on camera cropping it is still possible to obtain 4M,pix, sized shots
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Smart idea. This is how we used to make 'new' negs in the good old days. Hehe.
I have an Epson scanner that has a light box that sits above the glass plate, the scanner light does not activate but it just scans and processes the image. £125 six years ago but no idea if you can still get something similar.
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Thanks for your comment 'G', I did a lot of experimentingto get focus and lighting right, tinges with different incandesent lights, Fluoresents unreliable (strobe effect) natural light is brilliant. Camera in super macro mode no problembs with camera shake as as gizmo is effectivly integral to camera.
colyob
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Good idea. I have a photo scanner with a slide attachment but quality is not brilliant. Will give this a try. I find saving scanned slides as a tiff worked out better.
Bill Rose
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Worth a try Bill,It all started last Christmas with me, I was given a slide scanner as a gift and the results I got from that were most unsatisfactoy, I was anle to get a refund in vouchers for that. Then I tried projecting on to an A2 size drawing board and photograpghing result, not a good result with that either, then I tried projecting at about A5 size, much better but static problembs with lamp and fan was attracting too much dust/carpet fibre and the like made that result less than satisfactory too,(after I had made an open framed quadrapod to project through to minimise Parallax too). Abandoned efforts for a couple of months, Holidays cruising and gardening. Then tried this and after playing around with spacers for focus,and settings, bingo smashing results. Good luck with your Efforts.
Colin
colyob
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I haven't a slide scanner and will try this Colin so thanks for the how to _ Love the idea.
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Why don't you `refine' and Patent it Colin...great idea (your gadget that is!!)!
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moffatman, Thanks for comment, don't know anything about patents or how to get one. I am good at prototypes, one offs and aides to achieve a particular end, but never been down the patent path. Regards Colin.
colyob
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how clever are you, I think you should look into patents, just google them, otherwise someone might beat you to it, when you are rich and famous you can treat us all
Mary
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hello nice to be on site first time Brian.
b Tinker
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HI G I have a photosmart 3210 which has a scanner and light for negatives.i have never tryed it out, but i think i will try it out on slides.try any thing once.
kingjim
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i do not have the ability or patience to try this method so can anybody recommend a good scanner for negatives.
I had a Bearpaw model which was good enough for normal scanning but poor results with negatives.
J Harmes
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back in the days of film slrs you could buy transparency duplicators which either replaced the lens or screwed on the filter thread, these sometimes appear on ebay. they are basically a tube with a lens in it with a slide holder on the end. some of the fancier ones had zoom for cropping.
mine is a "ohnar zoom reverser" its got a 2.5 zoom ratio. it uses interchangable t2 mounts, so can be fitted to pentax, nikon, canon slrs with the right mount. the whole thing is about 6 inches long. it came off ebay some years ago, but ive never actually used it with a digi slr
some of the old bellows units for close up photography used to have slide holders to enable them to be used for slide copying aswell.
if it aint broke dont fix it
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Fuji used to make a range of professional scanners - the "Finescan 2750" and the "Lanovia Quattro" that produced superb results when scanning trannies. Very expensive at the time (about 6/7 years ago). They were bought by commercial printers rather than photographers and used for scanning images for magazines and coffee table books. Printers very rarely do any scanning now and want to unload their scanners for whatever money they can get for them. If you put a "wanted" ad on ebay you just might get one at a bargain price (make sure you get the software too, this was called "Colourkit"). I used to operate a Quattro-they're big-I could scan A3 film on mine!! Give my right arm for one now...
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Very impressed with your improvisation Colin! I have loads of old family slides and hope I can do the same one day! Definitely get it patented asap. Your local Business Center will help you.
I am a keen genealogist & new to photography - and I am having dificulties just photographing old family photographs with my new Fujifilm Z200 fd 10mega pixels camera... wondering if I have bought the wrong one now!
Another day wasted yesterday with the images obviously blurry in comparison to the originals!
I had much better experience with my old Fujifilm A101 1.3 mega pixels... but it only held 24 images!
New to this website & unsure whether I can get advice.
LindaMayRumble
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I use a scanner when transferring slide to JPEG; 5- at a time. The only film roll I ever used was Agfa-Chrome, 50ASA or 80ASA, the saturation was second to none and when this digital age unfolded; it was like capturing the original image after transferring from scanner to JPEG. My father believed in bulk-supply when it came to photography - he purchased over 500 rolls of Agfa Chrome and today, he still has 60 something rolls remaining since the late 70's. I use the odd one or two in my Cannon A1, and still takes the finest of pictures. With the deep saturation from Chrome film roll, the colouring is superb once written to DVD and played through a Plasma. I am at some stage going to re-write thousands of slides to Blu-ray when I get a minute or a year.
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Linda
You already have a camera that you have learnt to operate -you now have a new camera with more controls and gizmo that is in "Gobble-goop", its just a question of "transferred learning" from your old camera Sometimes you will get to a stage where you feel totally lost, this is the "Learning Plateau" and you will overcome this as you continue to press on with learning your camera's manual. Any terms or phrases that sound alien, just type it into your search engine and you will come across the answer and expanation. Good luck pet.
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I have been using the slide/negative attachment on an Epson flatbed scanner. Scans good enough for RPS journal reproduction. Before this, I copied slides on to negative film and had the resulting negs scanned in lab. Good enough for book repro, and keeps my film equipment in use. My slide copier is a Jessops one bought recently for £10.
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