RE: [photo-3d] slide scanner

["Gabriel Jacob" <gjacob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ron Beck writes: 
>I would have a problem with this for two reasons.  First, a lot of the
>slides I'd like to scan are 40+ years old and I don't want to remove the
>film chips.  Second, of the new slides I have, I use heat seal mounts
>and sealed them "very well" so that removing the film chip completely
>destroyes the mount and could potentially damage the film chip.
>
>So, I'll stick to a scanner that I can use the mounts "as is".

Good points. I believe it was mentioned the Minolta film scanner can
handle regular 41 X 101 stereo mounts. As I don't have one yet, I find
using a digital camera with good quality loupe to be the next best
thing. Aligning for stereo pairs is kind of tricky. You'll need a
tripod, and rig up a temporary rail (using a ruler and some masking
tape) for when duping the left and right images. If you just want to
have a 2-D copy, it is of course much quicker. Just this weekend
I copied about 500 old 2-D 2x2 slides in about 6 hours. I very rarely
look at these since setting up the projector or taking them out and
placing viewing them with a viewer is a big hassle. Now I have them
at my finger tips and can share these with family. You can also crop/
zoom into areas of interest with the digital camera. The quality might
not be film scanner quality but is verrry good nonetheless. 

P.S. I've had better luck using smaller diameter lens digital cameras
than larger ones using the above technique.

Gabriel

 

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