Have you priced having slides scanned professionally? I'd have to be a
millionaire and I'm far from that. I have to justify expenses with sales
and the margin is slim enough now!
The difference in using a bulk slide loader, which can do about 20 slides
an hour set on multiple exposures, and putting each one in a slide
duplicator is that I can go off and hang wallpaper while the bulk scanner
works. WIth the duplicator, I have to be right there all the time.
Tina
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 4:14 AM, C.H.Ling <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> > On 11/9/2012 12:02 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> >> But with digital you no longer need the sophisticated color filtration
> >> control that made the Beseler expensive. Any ordinary slide duplicator,
> >> macro lens and an electronic flash will do what you need with any final
> >> color adjustment work handled via digital post processing.
> >
> > Nevertheless, "For hundreds of thousands of slides, doing each one in the
> > camera is hard to think about!", I think it's
> > a poor solution.
> >
>
> For hundreds of thousands of slides Nikon 5000ED is not a solution too, one
> need a real professional service.
>
> > I have done this with an Oly Slide Copier on Oly Auto Bellows. It's a
> nice
> > set-up, with a slot into which one drops the
> > slide. The slot is wide enough to be easy to use, but with springs that
> > hold each slide in place against the back.
> >
> > And yet, after only a few slides, I could see that handling each slide
> > individually was going to get old really fast.
> > One can go through a stack faster than a scanner, as each exposure is
> > brief, but it's a quite labor intensive job. I can
> > just tell that repetitive motion is going to be a problem. Maybe if one
> > could hire someone to do the feeding?
> >
>
> Shooting slide with 5D II can be very fast, there is no problem to achieve
> 2-3 slide a minute. I can never do this with my Nikon 4000ED and I don't
> have a slide feeder. Even with a slide feeder, Tina was telling us she can
> only make 20 slides an hour.
>
> > Also, I would not use flash, having it go off right next to me over and
> > over and over again would be awful. I used one
> > of those inexpensive, 4x5" light 'tables'. Much easier on my eyes in any
> > case, and one may mask it to just the needed
> > area, so there' no glare.
>
> Inexpensive light tables do not have high color rendering index light
> source
> and you need longer exposure. Longer exposure may not have big issue on
> noise but vibration could be a big problem under high magnification, I much
> prefer flash for copy works.
>
> >
> > A scanner with auto feeder would be far preferable. The total capture
> time
> > would be longer, but one need not be present
> > while it's going on. Load a stack, go away and get on with one's life,
> and
> > come back after it's done to load another stack.
> >
> > The other, possibly big deal for me is dust removal. Both VueScan and
> > Silverfast claim to have found ways to use IR dust
> > recognition and removal on Kodachrome. Although I briefly tried the
> > Polaroid dust removal software Tina told us about,
> > I've done no careful testing, nor have I yet tested the VS Kodachrome IR
> > dust removal.
> >
> > I find it hard to believe a pure software solution would be as good and
> > consistent as the IR, but I don't really know.
> >
>
> Dust is a problem but not so much with diffused light source, I found
> little
> problem with my slides as they were processed and stored very well but the
> negatives are a big problem, many of them has finger prints and scratches
> due to the cheap processing labs.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
>
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