‘Slide shows’ are a little outdated in the modern era of sharing images on the internet. But in the days of analogue photography, a correctly exposed slide image is just about as good as it came. I was recently looking for some old slides of my own taken in the 1970’s from the early days of my photography hobby. I didn’t find them. However I did discover a box of slides I had completely forgotten about from 1978 and some more from 1984/85.
I recently pulled out some old 35mm slides and photographed them. I have a scanner, but I found it doesn't do a great job. I projected them on a white surface and had my camera on a tripod. It worked okay. I need to do them over, and the others (several hundred). But I think I'm going to try the macro lens thing, where you mount the slide on the end of the lens with a light source shinning through the slide. Some of my slides are from late 60's and are 35mm half-frame (so small).
I'm using a Canon 9000F flatbed scanner, it has a removable cover which contains a lamp and some slide/film adapters to put on the glass to keep the registration of the slides correct. It can scan at up to 9600dpi but it does take quite a long time at that resolution and the files are huge! So I tend to use slightly lower resolution and two passes and that seemed to work quite well.
I've seen the adaptors you can fit to a camera, but as I already have the Canon flat-bed and VueScan software as Canon no longer support the scanner and my version of MacOS!
We do still have a slide projector and screen somewhere!
I recently pulled out some old 35mm slides and photographed them. I have a scanner, but I found it doesn't do a great job. I projected them on a white surface and had my camera on a tripod. It worked okay. I need to do them over, and the others (several hundred). But I think I'm going to try the macro lens thing, where you mount the slide on the end of the lens with a light source shinning through the slide. Some of my slides are from late 60's and are 35mm half-frame (so small).
I'm using a Canon 9000F flatbed scanner, it has a removable cover which contains a lamp and some slide/film adapters to put on the glass to keep the registration of the slides correct. It can scan at up to 9600dpi but it does take quite a long time at that resolution and the files are huge! So I tend to use slightly lower resolution and two passes and that seemed to work quite well.
I've seen the adaptors you can fit to a camera, but as I already have the Canon flat-bed and VueScan software as Canon no longer support the scanner and my version of MacOS!
We do still have a slide projector and screen somewhere!