How about photographing slides?

In order to digitalize some thousand slides and save time (more than 1' to
scan a slide...) I wonder whether it exists some "adapter" to photograph
slides with a digital camera (I remember photographing slides was used to
obtain photo prints with analog cameras)
someone can help?
il barbi

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:57:31 +0200, il barbi wrote:
> In order to digitalize some thousand slides and save time (more than 1' to
> scan a slide...) I wonder whether it exists some "adapter" to photograph
> slides with a digital camera (I remember photographing slides was used to
> obtain photo prints with analog cameras)
> someone can help?
> il barbi

http://users.iafrica.com/m/mc/mcollett/brsd/index.htm

il barbi wrote:
> In order to digitalize some thousand slides and save time (more than 1' to
> scan a slide...) I wonder whether it exists some "adapter" to photograph
> slides with a digital camera (I remember photographing slides was used to
> obtain photo prints with analog cameras)
> someone can help?
> il barbi
>
>

You can find a number of devices for this on EBay. I use one on an 8 mp
camera and the results are very satisfactory, such that I rarely use my
slow dedicated slide scanner. Of course they are not as good as you
would get with a dedicated slide scanner, but they are not grossly
worse. For projecting with a high-quality digital projector, they are
just fine, and for prints up to 8x10 inches they are also very good. You
can go very fast with them, doing at least four slides a minute without
difficulty. If you keep the original slides, you can always go back and
make a high-resolution scan a specific slide should you need it. You do
need clean slides. My dedicated slide scanner has a provision for
removing dust and other debris from the image automatically, but you
don't get that with a digital camera approach.

Joe

il barbi wrote:
> In order to digitalize some thousand slides and save time (more than 1' to
> scan a slide...) I wonder whether it exists some "adapter" to photograph
> slides with a digital camera (I remember photographing slides was used to
> obtain photo prints with analog cameras)
> someone can help?
> il barbi
>
>
This was thoroughly discussed in this newsgroup perhaps three months
ago. Go to Google and search the archive for this group and you will
find much information.
Allen

Joseph Miller wrote:
> il barbi wrote:
>> In order to digitalize some thousand slides and save time (more than
>> 1' to scan a slide...) I wonder whether it exists some "adapter" to
>> photograph slides with a digital camera (I remember photographing
>> slides was used to obtain photo prints with analog cameras)
>> someone can help?
>> il barbi
>>
>
> You can find a number of devices for this on EBay. I use one on an 8 mp
> camera and the results are very satisfactory, such that I rarely use my
> slow dedicated slide scanner. Of course they are not as good as you
> would get with a dedicated slide scanner, but they are not grossly
> worse. For projecting with a high-quality digital projector, they are
> just fine, and for prints up to 8x10 inches they are also very good. You
> can go very fast with them, doing at least four slides a minute without
> difficulty. If you keep the original slides, you can always go back and
> make a high-resolution scan a specific slide should you need it. You do
> need clean slides. My dedicated slide scanner has a provision for
> removing dust and other debris from the image automatically, but you
> don't get that with a digital camera approach.
>
> Joe
It seems to me you should record raw and convert the raw using
a linear transfer curve (which many raw converters do not do).
Otherwise, you would be applying one transfer curve on top of
the film's characteristic curve.

Roger

On 30 Aug, 14:57, "il barbi" <angeieri.barbo...@virgilio.it> wrote:
> In order to digitalize some thousand slides and save time (more than 1' to
> scan a slide...) I wonder whether it exists some "adapter" to photograph
> slides with a digital camera (I remember photographing slides was used to
> obtain photo prints with analog cameras)
> someone can help?
> il barbi

just buy a canon 4200f or equivalent