You are very creative with ur boxes. I love my old slides from the 60's and 70s. The best of times...but everyone thinks their era was the best, don't they!
I am so happy to know how I can digitize my thousands of black and white/colour and slides. as I am 72 plenty of free time as children settled in their lives. Tons of sweet memories to cherish. thank you once again.
Excelent job. I am doing similar job with aiming to copy 3,000 slides that are old and getting some mould. I love the DIY art and I am doing a "scanner" using wooden, glass, lens and so on . Your experience helped me so much. My last results, comparing the original slide picture and my digital picture, I can say that my classification, from 0 to 10 was 8, but after addition of a lens it changed to 8.5 .
Thank you Stan for such a clear explanation. It is a project I have avoided for some years after a rather unconvincing first effort when I used a scanner. I'll have a go at your idea. Excellent to have no wretched racket/"musaq". All the best. Peter
Thank you for your comment, the only regret that I have is I didn't take the photo's in camera raw and then run them through Adobe Lightroom. I would have been able to restore a lot more of the color in Lightroom, we do learn as we go along. Thank you again for your comment and Thank You for watching.
after watching a few videos like this about digitizing slides, I have decided to...........leave the damn slides exactly where they are in the attic....
There are services that will do it for you at a cost around $.45 per slide. It's cheaper than buying a camera and gear. Who knows maybe one of those slides is a treasure to behold. Good luck, thank you for your comment and thank you for watching.
@@StanStallings 45 cents??? Ugh I have a boxful! I also have a bunch of loose photographs of relatives, but unfortunately they don't all have names with them. Also get this, I have a briefcase full of old cassette tapes with recordings from the TV broadcasts of the Space Program 😄😄 as awesome as those are, I'm sure the tape is degraded. My sister and I cleaned out my mom's house recently, and found all of this stuff.
@@nancyknightfrance2392 they will take the small individual slides and scan those? Sounds interesting. But, I will still have to go through and do a first look at everything I have, I mean I would love to keep it all but to be honest, some is more important than others :)
@@kbanghart I hope you can get the tapes to work, especially if they are family or private recordings - I have cassette tapes of my Mother chatting - from 20+ years ago and they work perfectly - I kept a handheld cassette player off batteries and occasionally I sit down and listen to Mum. I'm sure you can get a player somewhere.
I like the 45 degree bounce light. When I do close-ups using a tripod, I find hanging a sand bag from the top apex of the tripod really steadies things.
Yup, absolutely true. I don't understand why people like this - who have absolutely NO knowledge of photographic technique - bother to make videos and put them on TH-cam
Very nice video! I am looking to converting a few thousand slides to digital. This would save a lot of money and provide better results. Would you be able to provide part numbers for the rail and the quick release shoe?
Thank you for your comment, I ordered all parts from Amazon.com, go to Amazon and do a search for quick release shoe, and buy the ones that match the ones you have on your tripod, the focus rail is ( Eggsnow 2-way Macro Shot Focusing Focus Rail Slider Slide Tripod Head for All DSLR Camera (Sony,Canon,Nikon......) - Black ) good luck and thank you for watching!
each camera and lens are enuf different and requires its own sizes to work properly. So, No I don't make them to sell. I did make a video about how to cheaply make your own.studio.th-cam.com/users/videonphh_eVoyVA/edit
Thank you for your comment, I agree, my dad’s old camera that he took slides in were and a better than the prints of the 60's, on up. I spent a lot of time scanning the old photos and most of them were awful. all film media was subject to degrading (the film turning red). I'm grateful that my dad kipped his old slides. I know that I made some errors in my video but it is the best way to capture slides at the least amount of work. And now with a quality photo editing program it's easier to correct the red, remove red eye and much more. Thank you for watching.
Can you tell me what kind of light bulb you used to illuminate the slides. I was able to duplicate and create the black and white box very easily and inexpensively thanks to your clear, informative and instructive video. For years I have combed the internet for the best way to duplicate our family slides. This is the best, most accessible and doable solution I found with little cost. I am almost ready to shoot! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
The correct light would be a 5000 k. It is not so easy to find as a 6500k found in any market place. To avoid the circle of light in the middle of image I did a 45 degree light diffuser that is only a white panel with no gloss.
I have been scanning slides for several year now and regard your method as a very labour-intensive way to produce the desired end result. There are a number of slide scanning devices available on the market - although finding a good one that does exactly what you want - cropping, focussing, light, colour and, of course, compatible computer interface software - is another matter completely! I am aware of makes such as Epson, Wolverine etc - and have used Kaiser Baas and QPix with moderate satisfaction - but have not found one that completely satisfies. So, a query, have you investigated any of the slide scanners that are available retail?
It is true that scanners have gotten better, in the beginning it was very labor intensive but now that I have my system set up, I haven't looked for anything else. Cameras and lenses are very expensive but I wanted to get into photography any way and to create the supporting equipment takes some doing. We all have to make choices on what we can and won't do. My videos are what works well for me and is not the perfect way. The comments I get are everything from "you're Brilliant to you're Stupid" it's all Okay. Good luck with your search, may you find something that works very well for you. Thank you for your comment and thank you for watching!
I'm about to experiment with printing my Ektachrome E100 (2018 version) slides with my brand new darkroom on Fuji Flex paper and see what happens. Never printed anything other than BnW so will see how it goes! I also use a DSLR with the macro lens, light table and the Digitaliza scanning mask for scanning and Negative Lab Pro 2.0 in addition for colour negs
Hmm after reading some comments, this sounds like it could get ugly lol. I have an old projector, I wonder if it will work, I could simply project the photos, and then take digital pics of those. Well obviously lose a little bit, but it may just be worth it.
Yes you may lose a little bit but you may not. make sure that your camera is on a tripod, and that you have a remote trigger to take the shot. adjust the setting as you need. good luck and thank you for watching!
If only I had a DSLR camera. I modified my flatbed scanner and I can do up to 10 35mm slides at a time. Yes you are right it is very time consuming but I also have the time to do it.
Thanks, Stan. I'm about to start digitising my slides (maybe as many as 10,000), so I wanted a quality method and a quick one too. This seems just the thing. Thanks again.
Your very welcome, it's the fastest way I know of. Good luck with the 10,000. Did you see making the black box? maybe that will help you with the project. Thank you for watching.
The PaintShop software shows that you have 800% zoom on the scanned slide and 500% zoom on the DSLR slide. Try 800% zoom on the DSLR slide and you will see similar pixelation. Also what dpi did you scan at?
Yes, I was trying to show them at the same size on the screen. The pixel rate from a 20.2 Megapixel camera gives a much better and clearer photo than scanning will. I also know that not all DSLR camera are the same, I do know that scanning slides with a flat bed scanner is a life draining. We do it if we have no other choice. Thank you for your comment and thank you for watching. P.S. I'm not a pro, just a guy that was looking for a better and faster way.
Thanks for the excellent how-to video. I plan on converting all my slides and photos into .jpg files. It looks like the DSLR process you used gave you the best results for slides but what about photos? I assume that you use your flat bed scanner for the photos?
Many thanks. I'm about to start converting all my many thousands of photos of our children, and also my mother's slides. This method should save me a mass of time. Thanks again.
You're out of your mind if you think anybody's going to go through all that bullshit. Put them up on the display screen to start taking pictures of each photo and save them in the jpeg format.
Sounds like a good Idea if you don't have a macro lens. Some project the image on white or frosted glass. The goal is to get a quality image, I very happy with what I'm getting with my prosses. Let me know how your prosses works out. Thank you for watching.
I have made a 8”H X 8”L X 5”W cube out of 3/4” MDF. A round hole is cut in one end for the lens and a square hole is cut in the other end where the slide is mounted. The inside is painted flat black. I use the slide projector as a light source and diffuse the beam through two diffusers. I’m using a Canon Rebel T2i and EFS 18-135mm lens with image stabilization and auto focus. I have a 36mm extension tube on the lens to get a 1:1 with the image sensor. The camera is bolted to the base of the cube so that there is no movement between the camera and the slide. The camera, cube, projector and diffusers are placed on a separate table to eliminate vibrations and I control the camera remotely through a USB cable and the Canon EOS utility from another table. This allows me to view the camera image on a large computer screen and try different exposures prior to shooting. If you have not used the EOS software you should take a look at it. With the lens set to 135mm and f16, ISO100, 1/25sec, RAW copies of a slide are not too bad. The image would be better if it was sharper and not quite as grainy (the test slide was originally shot with 100ASA but the digital image looks like 400ASA). I do not want to spend hundreds of dollars for a special lens but would consider buying a EF 50mm f/1.8 STM if that would make a difference in the sharpness of the image, I’m looking at renting one. I think my fixtures and hardware setup is about as good as you can get for this application. I was trying to get plugged into someone in Cannon’s tech support group that has done this before and knows the Canon equipment and software that can be used to produce good reproductions of slides. So far Canon has been a worthless source of information. I asked about shooting a projected image because the other day I was projecting the image next to my 50” TV screen where I displayed the best digitized image of the projected slide to compare the two. I thought why not just take the extension tube off the lens an shoot it? So I did, the quality of the image was slightly better than best I got using the cube process described above. The only problem was that the projector screen and camera are not co-planer and you could see a slight change in shape from top to bottom. Considering that the camera was about 2 foot higher than the projector I think I can attach the camera to the bottom of the tripod and get the separation down to about 6” which should eliminate the problem.
Thank you for your comment, I using a Canon EOS 70D with a 18 to 55mm kit lens with Stablizer and attached to that I use a 58mm close up + 10 macro lens that fits the 18 to 55mm lens. For what I'm doing I found that my little bounce light box works very well. it gives me good even light. Cameras and lenses change across the board and it's hard to make one way of doing something the only way. I tried different ways before I came up with what works well for me. You need to find what works well for you and your camera. I applaud you for your efforts. Still, using a camera to capture slide images is a lot better than scanning them 1 or even 4 at a time. Good luck and thank you for watching!
I recently bought a neostar scanner for turning Slides to SD onto computer. It’s damn annoying, the slide falls a bit, so when I scan, there’s a black but at the top, and 1/4 of the picture is gone as it’s fallen below the scanner...any suggestion on how to solve this?
I found scanning photos a pain, so that's why I started using a camera. I hope you can get your scanner working or returned, good luck, Thank you for watching
It's so easy to make your own. the problem is the different size lenses, so I made a video on how to make one using black foam board. Here is the link th-cam.com/video/nphh_eVoyVA/w-d-xo.html Thank you for watching.
yes, if you can find a good one, Some are better than others, do your research. Out of the slide scanner I tried, I like the results I get with my DSL camera. Thanks for watching!
Wow so much effort when a scanner is ealier, less fuss and WILL give you better results. Images too pixelated? Either increase the DPI of your scanner or buy a better one
Scanners are getting better and better with time. With my old scanner it takes to much of my time to scan slides, I have better things to do. So for me why buy a better one when I can take photos of them at a much faster rate. Yes the new LED scanners are way cool and it would be pricey to buy a DSLR camera but if you have one anyway that's the way to go, for me anyway. Thanks for watching!
Way too much messing around! This may be great if you have say 50 to 100 slides maybe. But my Dad has HUNDREDS. This way is so not practical. Still looking...
Actually it goes faster, much faster, than a scanner once setup. I've started doing this as a side business. I use a very similar setup. There's a little work to setup the first shot, then it's basically one slide after another as quick as you can swap them. I set ISO to 100 aperture to F8 and let the camera pick shutter speed for each slide, so all I'm doing to the camera with each slide is hitting the remote shutter. It's possibly the fastest way out there for the quality you get.
I can't think of a much more Mickey Mouse way of doing this. Just buy a damned slide scanner. Yeah, they cost a lot of money. But this is just downright amateurish.
You are very creative with ur boxes. I love my old slides from the 60's and 70s. The best of times...but everyone thinks their era was the best, don't they!
I am so happy to know how I can digitize my thousands of black and white/colour and slides. as I am 72 plenty of free time as children settled in their lives. Tons of sweet memories to cherish. thank you once again.
What a very clear, unfussy, concise and well-produced description of your process. Excellent job.
I know a lot more about my camera now days. set you ISO on the camera to 100. This will minimize the camera noise. Thank you for watching!
Thanks for taking the time to put this together. Very helpful, even the people comments and suggestions are helpful.
Excelent job. I am doing similar job with aiming to copy 3,000 slides that are old and getting some mould. I love the DIY art and I am doing a "scanner" using wooden, glass, lens and so on . Your experience helped me so much. My last results, comparing the original slide picture and my digital picture, I can say that my classification, from 0 to 10 was 8, but after addition of a lens it changed to 8.5 .
You sir are a really good person. I enjoy this well put together video. Have a nice day.
Thank you Stan for such a clear explanation. It is a project I have avoided for some years after a rather unconvincing first effort when I used a scanner. I'll have a go at your idea. Excellent to have no wretched racket/"musaq".
All the best. Peter
Thank you for your comment, the only regret that I have is I didn't take the photo's in camera raw and then run them through Adobe Lightroom. I would have been able to restore a lot more of the color in Lightroom, we do learn as we go along. Thank you again for your comment and Thank You for watching.
after watching a few videos like this about digitizing slides, I have decided to...........leave the damn slides exactly where they are in the attic....
There are services that will do it for you at a cost around $.45 per slide. It's cheaper than buying a camera and gear. Who knows maybe one of those slides is a treasure to behold. Good luck, thank you for your comment and thank you for watching.
@@StanStallings 45 cents??? Ugh I have a boxful!
I also have a bunch of loose photographs of relatives, but unfortunately they don't all have names with them. Also get this, I have a briefcase full of old cassette tapes with recordings from the TV broadcasts of the Space Program 😄😄 as awesome as those are, I'm sure the tape is degraded.
My sister and I cleaned out my mom's house recently, and found all of this stuff.
@@kbanghart Then there is Wal mart who will scan to a DVD disc
@@nancyknightfrance2392 they will take the small individual slides and scan those? Sounds interesting.
But, I will still have to go through and do a first look at everything I have, I mean I would love to keep it all but to be honest, some is more important than others :)
@@kbanghart I hope you can get the tapes to work, especially if they are family or private recordings - I have cassette tapes of my Mother chatting - from 20+ years ago and they work perfectly - I kept a handheld cassette player off batteries and occasionally I sit down and listen to Mum. I'm sure you can get a player somewhere.
I like the 45 degree bounce light. When I do close-ups using a tripod, I find hanging a sand bag from the top apex of the tripod really steadies things.
Interesting that your photo of the slide is richer in color and grain than the scanned version. Thank you for posting Stan.
Very nicely explained and you have put everything about memoirs so aptly...
Thank you for your comment and thank you for watching!
1250 iso? no no! drop the shutter speed and drop the iso for better image quality. lower iso=less noise.
Yup, absolutely true. I don't understand why people like this - who have absolutely NO knowledge of photographic technique - bother to make videos and put them on TH-cam
Got to admit this was a innovative attempt at diy :)
You can use your computer monitor as a light sourse, turn up the brightness.
Thank you Stan this is exactly the information I’ve been looking for.
You're very welcome, good luck with your project. Thank you for watching!
Thanks for sharing. Nicely done.
Very nice video! I am looking to converting a few thousand slides to digital. This would save a lot of money and provide better results. Would you be able to provide part numbers for the rail and the quick release shoe?
Thank you for your comment, I ordered all parts from Amazon.com, go to Amazon and do a search for quick release shoe, and buy the ones that match the ones you have on your tripod, the focus rail is ( Eggsnow 2-way Macro Shot Focusing Focus Rail Slider Slide Tripod Head for All DSLR Camera (Sony,Canon,Nikon......) - Black ) good luck and thank you for watching!
10/10 for intro creativity
Do you sell the boxes you made?
each camera and lens are enuf different and requires its own sizes to work properly. So, No I don't make them to sell. I did make a video about how to cheaply make your own.studio.th-cam.com/users/videonphh_eVoyVA/edit
@@StanStallings thank you.
Good to know about slides. The colors seem to have faded.
you are simply great, this is Debasish from Kolkata, India
Thank you, you are very kind
From my experience, the quality of the slides are way better then a positive print out. I Wish my family members had more slide copies then printouts.
Thank you for your comment, I agree, my dad’s old camera that he took slides in were and a better than the prints of the 60's, on up. I spent a lot of time scanning the old photos and most of them were awful. all film media was subject to degrading (the film turning red). I'm grateful that my dad kipped his old slides. I know that I made some errors in my video but it is the best way to capture slides at the least amount of work. And now with a quality photo editing program it's easier to correct the red, remove red eye and much more. Thank you for watching.
Thank you! I am guessing you are LDS. I have lots of mission slides from 1967-69 that I need to digitize.
Can you tell me what kind of light bulb you used to illuminate the slides. I was able to duplicate and create the black and white box very easily and inexpensively thanks to your clear, informative and instructive video. For years I have combed the internet for the best way to duplicate our family slides. This is the best, most accessible and doable solution I found with little cost. I am almost ready to shoot! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
The correct light would be a 5000 k. It is not so easy to find as a 6500k found in any market place. To avoid the circle of light in the middle of image I did a 45 degree light diffuser that is only a white panel with no gloss.
I have been scanning slides for several year now and regard your method as a very labour-intensive way to produce the desired end result. There are a number of slide scanning devices available on the market - although finding a good one that does exactly what you want - cropping, focussing, light, colour and, of course, compatible computer interface software - is another matter completely! I am aware of makes such as Epson, Wolverine etc - and have used Kaiser Baas and QPix with moderate satisfaction - but have not found one that completely satisfies. So, a query, have you investigated any of the slide scanners that are available retail?
It is true that scanners have gotten better, in the beginning it was very labor intensive but now that I have my system set up, I haven't looked for anything else. Cameras and lenses are very expensive but I wanted to get into photography any way and to create the supporting equipment takes some doing. We all have to make choices on what we can and won't do. My videos are what works well for me and is not the perfect way. The comments I get are everything from "you're Brilliant to you're Stupid" it's all Okay. Good luck with your search, may you find something that works very well for you. Thank you for your comment and thank you for watching!
I'm about to experiment with printing my Ektachrome E100 (2018 version) slides with my brand new darkroom on Fuji Flex paper and see what happens. Never printed anything other than BnW so will see how it goes!
I also use a DSLR with the macro lens, light table and the Digitaliza scanning mask for scanning and Negative Lab Pro 2.0 in addition for colour negs
Hmm after reading some comments, this sounds like it could get ugly lol.
I have an old projector, I wonder if it will work, I could simply project the photos, and then take digital pics of those. Well obviously lose a little bit, but it may just be worth it.
Yes you may lose a little bit but you may not. make sure that your camera is on a tripod, and that you have a remote trigger to take the shot. adjust the setting as you need. good luck and thank you for watching!
that you still be sane and alive to view them will be worth the quality sacrifice - click...click.. repeat
If only I had a DSLR camera. I modified my flatbed scanner and I can do up to 10 35mm slides at a time. Yes you are right it is very time consuming but I also have the time to do it.
Thanks, Stan. I'm about to start digitising my slides (maybe as many as 10,000), so I wanted a quality method and a quick one too. This seems just the thing. Thanks again.
Your very welcome, it's the fastest way I know of. Good luck with the 10,000. Did you see making the black box? maybe that will help you with the project. Thank you for watching.
The PaintShop software shows that you have 800% zoom on the scanned slide and 500% zoom on the DSLR slide. Try 800% zoom on the DSLR slide and you will see similar pixelation. Also what dpi did you scan at?
Yes, I was trying to show them at the same size on the screen. The pixel rate from a 20.2 Megapixel camera gives a much better and clearer photo than scanning will. I also know that not all DSLR camera are the same, I do know that scanning slides with a flat bed scanner is a life draining. We do it if we have no other choice. Thank you for your comment and thank you for watching. P.S. I'm not a pro, just a guy that was looking for a better and faster way.
Thanks for the excellent how-to video. I plan on converting all my slides and photos into .jpg files. It looks like the DSLR process you used gave you the best results for slides but what about photos? I assume that you use your flat bed scanner for the photos?
Many thanks. I'm about to start converting all my many thousands of photos of our children, and also my mother's slides. This method should save me a mass of time. Thanks again.
You're out of your mind if you think anybody's going to go through all that bullshit. Put them up on the display screen to start taking pictures of each photo and save them in the jpeg format.
Stan, have you ever tried projecting the slide on a screen and then shooting the image to get your digital file?
Sounds like a good Idea if you don't have a macro lens. Some project the image on white or frosted glass. The goal is to get a quality image, I very happy with what I'm getting with my prosses. Let me know how your prosses works out. Thank you for watching.
My sister has a little slide scanner, she comes to me because I can get a better image.
I have made a 8”H X 8”L X 5”W cube out of 3/4” MDF. A round hole is cut in one end for the lens and a square hole is cut in the other end where the slide is mounted. The inside is painted flat black. I use the slide projector as a light source and diffuse the beam through two diffusers. I’m using a Canon Rebel T2i and EFS 18-135mm lens with image stabilization and auto focus. I have a 36mm extension tube on the lens to get a 1:1 with the image sensor. The camera is bolted to the base of the cube so that there is no movement between the camera and the slide. The camera, cube, projector and diffusers are placed on a separate table to eliminate vibrations and I control the camera remotely through a USB cable and the Canon EOS utility from another table. This allows me to view the camera image on a large computer screen and try different exposures prior to shooting. If you have not used the EOS software you should take a look at it.
With the lens set to 135mm and f16, ISO100, 1/25sec, RAW copies of a slide are not too bad. The image would be better if it was sharper and not quite as grainy (the test slide was originally shot with 100ASA but the digital image looks like 400ASA). I do not want to spend hundreds of dollars for a special lens but would consider buying a EF 50mm f/1.8 STM if that would make a difference in the sharpness of the image, I’m looking at renting one.
I think my fixtures and hardware setup is about as good as you can get for this application. I was trying to get plugged into someone in Cannon’s tech support group that has done this before and knows the Canon equipment and software that can be used to produce good reproductions of slides. So far Canon has been a worthless source of information.
I asked about shooting a projected image because the other day I was projecting the image next to my 50” TV screen where I displayed the best digitized image of the projected slide to compare the two. I thought why not just take the extension tube off the lens an shoot it? So I did, the quality of the image was slightly better than best I got using the cube process described above. The only problem was that the projector screen and camera are not co-planer and you could see a slight change in shape from top to bottom. Considering that the camera was about 2 foot higher than the projector I think I can attach the camera to the bottom of the tripod and get the separation down to about 6” which should eliminate the problem.
Thank you for your comment, I using a Canon EOS 70D with a 18 to 55mm kit lens with Stablizer and attached to that I use a 58mm close up + 10 macro lens that fits the 18 to 55mm lens. For what I'm doing I found that my little bounce light box works very well. it gives me good even light. Cameras and lenses change across the board and it's hard to make one way of doing something the only way. I tried different ways before I came up with what works well for me. You need to find what works well for you and your camera. I applaud you for your efforts. Still, using a camera to capture slide images is a lot better than scanning them 1 or even 4 at a time. Good luck and thank you for watching!
I also started using Light room and Photoshop over a year ago and I have wondered why didn't I change sooner.
thanks stan pl let me know will a kit lens do ? it does not have a macro.
What I used was a Canon EFS 18-55 mm kit lens and a HD Digital NC Close up+10 Macro lens 58mm. Hope this helps. Thank you for watching.
Rear Krishnakumar :Yes , you can use extention tube to convert your kit lens to amacro lens 1:1 magnification.
I recently bought a neostar scanner for turning Slides to SD onto computer. It’s damn annoying, the slide falls a bit, so when I scan, there’s a black but at the top, and 1/4 of the picture is gone as it’s fallen below the scanner...any suggestion on how to solve this?
I found scanning photos a pain, so that's why I started using a camera. I hope you can get your scanner working or returned, good luck, Thank you for watching
I don't suppose you have templates to build the two boxes?
You should sell that little black box.
gREAT EFFORT---
You didn't buy a "Macro" lens, you bought a +10 supplementary close-up lens!
It's so easy to make your own. the problem is the different size lenses, so I made a video on how to make one using black foam board. Here is the link th-cam.com/video/nphh_eVoyVA/w-d-xo.html Thank you for watching.
Still a massive faff!!!
You might as well just buy a film scanner.
yes, if you can find a good one, Some are better than others, do your research. Out of the slide scanner I tried, I like the results I get with my DSL camera. Thanks for watching!
Incredibly slow to use a scanner
Wow so much effort when a scanner is ealier, less fuss and WILL give you better results.
Images too pixelated? Either increase the DPI of your scanner or buy a better one
Scanners are getting better and better with time. With my old scanner it takes to much of my time to scan slides, I have better things to do. So for me why buy a better one when I can take photos of them at a much faster rate. Yes the new LED scanners are way cool and it would be pricey to buy a DSLR camera but if you have one anyway that's the way to go, for me anyway. Thanks for watching!
Way too much messing around! This may be great if you have say 50 to 100 slides maybe. But my Dad has HUNDREDS. This way is so not practical. Still looking...
Actually it goes faster, much faster, than a scanner once setup. I've started doing this as a side business. I use a very similar setup. There's a little work to setup the first shot, then it's basically one slide after another as quick as you can swap them. I set ISO to 100 aperture to F8 and let the camera pick shutter speed for each slide, so all I'm doing to the camera with each slide is hitting the remote shutter. It's possibly the fastest way out there for the quality you get.
lol I found slides... I rather not deal with all of this.
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Just buy a Epson scanner, dpi up to 56000
Sorry, but your green screen is really bad.
I can't think of a much more Mickey Mouse way of doing this. Just buy a damned slide scanner. Yeah, they cost a lot of money. But this is just downright amateurish.