Digitising slides and prints - non birding

["Rosemary Royle" <>]

We have tried using a friend's Epson scanner which has a mount on which you can 
load 12 slides (in their mounts)

There were an awful lot of scanning options which took a while to experiment 
with, and we found that using built-in dust removal was exceptionally slow.

It took about 5 minutes for 12 slides at a reasonable resolution (compromise 
between time, resolution and file size)

We found that the slides all needed editing in Photoshop as the images looked 
odd - rather dark and probably oversaturated. A bit of twiddling with levels 
would normally do the trick and sharpening often worked well. But they rarely 
had the quality of a good digital pic.

Altogether quite time consuming - OK if you are retired!

Rosemary

Wales, UK