Scanning 35mm Slides

[An Gof]

I would like to scan and digitise all my late fathers slides. Does anyone on here have any experience of undertaking such a project and any recommendations of suitable scanners.

TIA

An Gof

 

[Jerry]

I would like to scan and digitise all my late fathers slides. Does anyone on here have any experience of undertaking such a project and any recommendations of suitable scanners.

TIA

An Gof

A friend bought a fairly expensive scanner to do the same couple years ago. Results were no great plus it took ages to do. So he ended up sending them away to get them scanned.

Much better result.

 

[milkloss]

Yep, send them away, easier and better quality.

 

[Dry Rot]

I have the Epson Perfection V370 photoscanner.

Yes, it is slow but the quality is very very good.

https://epson.com/For-Home/Scanners/Photo-Scanners/Epson-Perfection-V370-Photo-Scanner/p/B11B207221

 

[Storeman]

I have the Epson Perfection V370 photoscanner.

Yes, it is slow but the quality is very very good.

https://epson.com/For-Home/Scanners/Photo-Scanners/Epson-Perfection-V370-Photo-Scanner/p/B11B207221

I have the V350 here. Very good quality, but as mentioned, a bit slow.

 

[An Gof]

Thanks for the replies. @Dry Rot and @Storeman when you say slow roughly how long to scan each slide at decent resolution?
Also is it one slide at a time or can your machines cope with multiple slides in a holder?

 

[Dry Rot]

If you Google, there should be plenty of reviews on this scanner. Here's one:

https://scanningthings.com/epson-perfection-v370-scanner-review/

To answer your second question:

https://files.support.epson.com/pdf/prv37_/prv37_ug.pdf

 

[ollie989898]

I would not bother buying a scanner capable of doing it, probably best to send them to get experts with some serious equipment to do it as they will capture them with much better quality. Decent scanning takes time unfortunately.

 

[Storeman]

Thanks for the replies. @Dry Rot and @Storeman when you say slow roughly how long to scan each slide at decent resolution?
Also is it one slide at a time or can your machines cope with multiple slides in a holder?

To be honest, it's been a while since I last used the slide scanning function, so I can't remember the exact scan time. The slide holder takes 2 slides at a time and I guess it took a couple of minutes to do the scan.
I have the software set to save the scans as uncompressed/lossless Tiff files. Then while the machine is scanning the next slides, I would make any required adjustments to the recently scanned files in Photoshop, before saving a copy as jpeg files.
Once you get a workflow going, it doesn't really take too long.

 

[Dry Rot]

Some of my photos will be published which is why I went for high quality. It is easy enough to reduce quality but once you've done that the process cannot be reversed. It is also easier to manipulate a high quality original in Photoshop which I also tend to do. Horses for courses.

It's usually better to have a few good photos than masses and masses of rubbish which will just bore viewers! Back when using 35mm, we used 12 - 20 exposure rolls of film so chose carefully before pressing the button. Now it is fire off as many shots as possible and hope that one or two will be some good!

Same with film. a 100ft roll of 16mm lasted for 2.5 minutes, cost £100 to process, then another £100 to make a working copy for editing.