Originally posted by 7.62lew I have a couple of Kodak Carousels full of slides from the 1970's and 80's. I am looking for suggestions on companies that will transfer them to digital. Any recommendations?
Will the slides returned to me? Do they have to remove them from the cardboard frames?
I tried to research about doing it myself, but looks pretty labor intensive and I don't know if I would have the time.
Thanks
To answer your questions, if you have a company do them for you, the slides should be returned to you. If the company would not return the slides, I would not use them.
As far as I know, No, the slides do not need to be removed from the mounts.
It is a bit labor intensive to do them yourself, but that depends on how you do them. I used a flatbed scanner and I set up a workflow that worked for me. The drawback was the flatbed scanner. I could only scan 4 slides at a time. Also, without digging into settings and the manual, I found that if a slide was slightly out of focus, I could not adjust focus.
If I had done the bellows and slide copier set up, I could have mitigated the slightly out of focus with the camera. I chose the flat bed scanner method instead though.
There are slide and film scanners on the market that will scan slides but are very expensive. Here is a search of said scanners.
slide copier | B&H Photo Video