1 post tagged “archive slides”

I just purchased an Epson V300 photo scanner that can scan up to four 35mm slides at a time. Beats the old Canon that I had, 1 slide at a time and the resolution wasn't great. It also ran in the Classic environment on my Mac and was slow. The Epson is quicker to set up then just let it take a few minutes to scan the slides unsupervised, and take a tea break. When you come back they're done. I have had a few goes at various image types and there is a trap for young players. The scratch and dust removal feature looks a great idea until you try something tricky like the slide at right. Because this was a night shot with tiny star images, the dust removal software can't seem to tell the difference and tried to remove many of the stars. I simply repeated the process without the dust removal and then manually painted over the dust specs in procreate painter classic with a graphics tablet and pen. The image at right is the Cathedral rock feature of Mount Buffalo in Victoria, Australia, taken on Ektachrome 400, 30 seconds F2.8, March 1997. It was almost a full moon at the time.
I have a large slide collection and am now in the process of scanning the best to show on the web and to archive some ancient slides from my childhood to serve as a safeguard. This mountainous task looks a bit easier now.
For web publishing I've been playing with Jalbum, which  isn't to difficult to use and you can publish up to 30MB on their server. Flickr allows you more space but is slower to organise and you are limited in the number of albums.