converting slides to digital pictures

[Doc]

Ok, I have a jillion slides from years ago that I want to put into digital media. I have a converter, but it does a very unsatisfactory job in terms of color matching, exposure and sharpness. I have also tried some of the printer/scanners with slide copying capability with the same unhappy results.

I have been considering breaking out the old slide projector and using my digital camera for taking pictures of the screen image. Has anyone tried doing this? Any success? Any other suggestions?

[Single_shot]

Doc I tried it myself too,pretty crappy results from a standard scanner.What is needed to do it correctly,is a high end digital slide scanner $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ or outsource the slides for much less. http://www.scanflurry.com/

[growalot]

Doesn't Walmart do that?

[Doc]

Doc I tried it myself too,pretty crappy results from a standard scanner.What is needed to do it correctly,is a high end digital slide scanner $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ or outsource the slides for much less. http://www.scanflurry.com/

Wow, at $.75 apiece, that could be a pile of cash. I have 7 or more carousels. That's a lot of slides. I don't know what Walmart charges, but it may even be more than that. I have just a small selected bundle of people pictures that I separated out, and I came up with about 150 of them to start. Thats $113.50 and only a small miniscule part of the collection.

However, if I can't figure out a different way, I may have to resort to paying the big bucks. By the way, did I ever mention the fact that I am cheap .... lol. But I may have no choice. I have some that just should never be lost. I'm going to go out and see what Walmart has and what they charge for the process.

[josephmrtn]

do you have any idea what they all are pics of?

[Doc]

do you have any idea what they all are pics of?

There was a time when I was impressed with putting slides up on the big screen, and so for several years every photo I took was processed to slides for my carousel projector. Well that was then and this is now, where digital is the format of choice. I was pretty deep into photography back then and was taking pictures like a crazy man. I have all kinds of pictures from the Adirondacks, and other local scenic locations, and just about everywhere that I went. There are people pictures (friends and relatives), flowers, bugs, camping trips, wildlife, and just about anything that most people take pictures of. But there are so many of them that almost any commercial processing gets to be very expensive.

Yesterday I checked with Walmart and the guy said he could do them for around $.28 each which may not really be all that bad if I sort out the ones that I don't care that much about (thanks growalot for the tip). But I still want to see how it works to take a digital picture of the image projected on the screen. I'm looking at all possibilities.