I've never tried any of these techniques, but I've heard of people
photographing slides projected on a screen, photographing slides
directly, and even photographing their (high resolution) monitor.
Here is a link to a site explaining how to make a jig to photograph them
directly:
http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/photo/slide_photographing.html
I like this jig, made out of PVC pipe:
http://www.pbase.com/ronnie_14187/image/68630599
Peter Shute
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Andy Burton
> Sent: Monday, 1 September 2008 10:07 AM
> To: Graham Turner
> Cc:
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Scanners
>
>
>
> Hi Graham,
>
> I recently bought an HP Scanjet G4050 dedicated scanner.
> Forgotten the
> cost but roughly $300, might be a bit less. The Hewlett website will
> have the details.
>
> It's not the fastest machine in the world but is easy to operate and
> will work in the background on your computer while you work on other
> stuff.
>
> Its best advantage is that it will scan 16 slides at a time, or will
> do a number of negatives, or four postcard-sized prints or A4
> or etc.
> etc. No need to pull your slides apart. Very simple and reasonably
> intuitive to operate.
>
> Mine is linked to my iMac and will scan to files, pdf, iPhoto, Adobe
> Reader, my two email accounts and so on. I presume that for PC users
> it will scan to Photoshop.
>
> If you don't have photo-editing software (I transfer from iPhoto to
> Aperture 2.1) then it comes with its own software.
>
> Hope that is of use to someone out there.
>
> Andy
>
>
>
> Andy Burton
>
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