35mm slide conversions????

[beefed88]

My dad has quite a few 35mm slides that I would like to get converted to digital.

Has anyone done this at home with the special scanners?? How was the quality?

I have been looking at services that do it with color correction and scratch removal but they want like $1 for each slide converted, seems expensive.

Any suggestions??

[Leah]

I've been looking for the exact same thing! Subscribing.

[Dave586]

I have looked into this before...
My dad has over 5000 35mm slides that need to be converted to a digital format. I found a place that would do it for 25 cents a slide which is about $1250 dollars. This involves shipping the slides which would cost about $75 to $100, and the conversion facility shipping them back $75 to 100$ along with the media (DVDs) uknown amount, and unknown weight. This price does not include brushing up the scanned images.

Local conversion prices are 35 to 50 cents a slide.

DIY options are not for the faint of heart.

You can buy a decent slide scanner for about 3 grand, and if I ran it for three weeks straight i could convert my dad's 5000 slide collection. I have talked to people that own such devices and they claim they are loud and could potientially disturb you while sleeping if in the room next to the bedroom, which would be the case at my parents house. Given that you have to refill the slide tray on the scanner, reboot the computer once a day, and not run the conversion during sleeping hours it would probably take a month to convert 1000 slides.

yes there are cheaper scanners, but they do not have the volume capacity. It takes about 2 to 5 minutes to scan one slide depending on the quality you select and I would go for the highest because I only want to do it once. The 2 to 5 minutes does not involve the editing to time to go back and brush up the scan.

My dad is too cheap to deal with it, and I don't think it's my duty to pay for it either. So they (the slides)sit waiting for the perfect opportunity.