35mm Slide Scan to Digital & Printing

[bitchstewie]

During a bunch of recent tidying I've found some 35mm slides from the early 90s that I'd quite like to get scanned so they're preserved.

I know Max Spielman can do this in store but the quality when I had a couple done before seemed "consumer" at best and the scans didn't seem anything like what the original 35mm contains.

Peak Imaging seem to be are gone which shows how long ago I last did anything with film.

Any suggestions on who could be trusted to scan these both to digital and possibly to do prints from some?

There's a mix of mounted 35mm and the strips places like Peak returned in sleeves back in the day.

[StevieBee]

For the scanning, you could easily do it yourself.

From what I've read, the 'cheaper' slide scanners aren't much cop and the go-to option is an adapter you fix to the lens of a camera and take a photo of the slide. Like this:

https://www.parkcameras.com/shop/nikon-film-digiti...

This assumes you have a decent camera and a suitable lens.

When you're done, sell the adapter.

If not, I'd recommend searching locally for people who provide this sort of service from home. There's plenty of them out there and the good ones will have the higher-end dedicated scanners.

[Simpo Two]

StevieBee said:

https://www.parkcameras.com/shop/nikon-film-digiti...

This assumes you have a decent camera and a suitable lens.

I used a macro lens on a lightbox. Still needed 'post' to get them looking right though; you get some funny colour casts on old slides so best to shoot RAW if you can.

[Mr Pointy]

You can do it yourself but if you don't have many to do the investment in kit might exceed the cost of having them done & it definately takes more time than you'd think. Mr Scan charges 30-50p a slide or negative & there's a discount deal on at the moment:

https://mrscan.co.uk/

[lancslad58]

I used one of these for mounted and unmounted film, it's fairly time consuming but works.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01HZQZLXW/ref...

Some example results

https://www.flickr.com/photos/199185525@N08/albums...

[StevieBee]

lancslad58 said:

I used one of these for mounted and unmounted film, it's fairly time consuming but works.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01HZQZLXW/ref...

Some example results

https://www.flickr.com/photos/199185525@N08/albums...

They're pretty good. Better than I've seen with others.

Did you do much tweaking in post?

[lancslad58]

StevieBee said:

lancslad58 said:

I used one of these for mounted and unmounted film, it's fairly time consuming but works.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01HZQZLXW/ref...

Some example results

https://www.flickr.com/photos/199185525@N08/albums...

They're pretty good. Better than I've seen with others.

Did you do much tweaking in post?

I've got a copy of Corel Paint Shop Pro, the poor mans Photoshop.
I just generally use inbuilt functions such as "Smart Photo Fix" or "Haze Removal" that's about all.

[BigMoose1973]

When my Dad passed he left a couple of hundred slides. I bought a Plustek OpticFilm 8100 to scan them in. It was not that quick but produced very good results. It can also do negatives.