Graham,
I do a lot of slide scanning, can be time consuming. If you want it
done by someone, I'd suggest:
http://www.imagescience.com.au/Scanning/flextightScanning.html
Very good quality, done on Flextite scanner, worth >$10,000. the $7.50
scan should be sufficient for most needs.
Otherwise you can do it yourself, but once again time is the issue,
you'd be looking at $700 for a good flatbed scanner, where you can load
multiple slides at once, but they are slow. A dedicated slide scanner
does the best job, Nikon are the only ones selling them these days,
apart from a couple of no name type brands I've seen on offer. What to
do will depend on what purpose you have in mind. If you just want to
use the scans for a website, the quality requirements are relatively
low, Printing a poster size image is another issue. Shooting them with
a DSLR on light box with a macro lens is another option which could be
quite fast once you sort out the right white balance.
If you're doing it for archiving you probably want high quality and you
need to think about how you're going to store the files. Hard discs do
fail, you probably want as a minimum a copy on your hard rive, and a
back up on an external drive. If you want to ask anything more specific
drop me an email.
Chris Ross
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