Photo Slides

[Giggsie]

Is there something you can use to turn old photo slides into photos?

[Zacs-Master]

Yes if you Google slide converts you'll see lots of options which plug into your computer and some independent ones. They look a bit fiddly to use. There are photographic shops which will also do this for you.

http://www.johnlewis.com/ion-slides-forever-desktop-slide-film-scanner/p231754881?sku=231754881&s_kwcid=2dx92700016622244881&tmad=c&tmcampid=2&gclid=COeKgLm9xNECFYM4GwodqswCxA&gclsrc=aw.ds

[Tuvok]

You can scan them.

Do you have a scanner and does it have a transpnarancy unit?

http://www.ebuyer.com/542907-epson-perfection-v550-photo-scanner-b11b210301?mkwid=ssBnsIpVe_dt&;pcrid=51482414939&pkw=&pmt=&gclid=CPzLiby9xNECFWcq0wodh9gF6w

Or you can get a slide scanner

http://www.johnlewis.com/ion-slides-forever-desktop-slide-film-scanner/p231754881?sku=231754881&s_kwcid=2dx92700016622244881&tmad=c&tmcampid=2&gclid=CJDO5sq9xNECFWYq0wodgM4JuQ&gclsrc=aw.ds


Don't know if the photo areas at Tesco etc. do slide scanning.

[bookbinder]

Scan them and then upload them to your computer.
From there, you can print them out.

[Buenchico]

Yes but it's fiddly!

You need a film scanner, like this one:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/ion-slides-forever-film-and-slide-scanner-a76lb
They work in a similar way to normal flat-bed scanners but they use transmitted light (passed through the slides) instead of reflected light (bounced off a document).

At one time you had to pay thousands of pounds for a film scanner that had a good enough resolution to produce decent results but these days even cheap film scanners can do a remarkably good job. Even with the very best ones though you often need to fiddle with the colour settings (using an image editor) to get images looking exactly as they should. (Otherwise you might find that there's a colour cast on your images). So that's why I've described the task as rather 'fiddly'.

Once you've scanned the images to your computer (and tweaked them in an image editor, if necessary) you can print them out on your home inkjet printer or take them into a high street photo processing shop (on, say, a USB stick) for them to do the job for you.

However if you've only got a very small number of slides to scan it would be easier and cheaper to go straight to the photo processing shop in the first place, as they can convert slides to photos directly.

[Giggsie]

Great thank you for your help. Will look into all links.

[exarmy448]

Just done all mine using a portable scanner device, www.veho-world.com. With this device not only converted slides but enabled me to tidy them up, ie get rid of red eye, lighten and darken. Not an expensive device which is recommended.

[theshedman]

Lidls also did one a while back for around £20. I bought it just to see how it worked and turned some very old 1960s slides into pictures. Just plugged into PC and then printed out the decent ones.