How about photographing slides?

External Since: Dec 08, 2006 Posts: 18

In order to digitalize some thousand slides and save time (more than 1' to
scan a slide...) I wonder whether it exists some "adapter" to photograph
slides with a digital camera (I remember photographing slides was used to
obtain photo prints with analog cameras)
someone can help?
il barbi

External Since: Aug 16, 2005 Posts: 47

il barbi wrote:
> In order to digitalize some thousand slides and save time (more than 1' to
> scan a slide...) I wonder whether it exists some "adapter" to photograph
> slides with a digital camera (I remember photographing slides was used to
> obtain photo prints with analog cameras)
> someone can help?
> il barbi
>
>

You can find a number of devices for this on EBay. I use one on an 8 mp
camera and the results are very satisfactory, such that I rarely use my
slow dedicated slide scanner. Of course they are not as good as you
would get with a dedicated slide scanner, but they are not grossly
worse. For projecting with a high-quality digital projector, they are
just fine, and for prints up to 8x10 inches they are also very good. You
can go very fast with them, doing at least four slides a minute without
difficulty. If you keep the original slides, you can always go back and
make a high-resolution scan a specific slide should you need it. You do
need clean slides. My dedicated slide scanner has a provision for
removing dust and other debris from the image automatically, but you
don't get that with a digital camera approach.

Joe