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North Dakota | Depends on what quality you are looking for. The cheap slide scanners that cost $100 take fair to poor quality pics of slides. A nikon coolscan can be bought on eBay for around $500 used and then resell after you transfer your slides. Best quality is a wet drum scanner, that is what you would get if you send them away to a high quality processor, I believe it costs about $20 per slide but will give you absolutely amazing results. The file will be around 150 megabytes.
What I use is an aluminum frame that holds my digital camera with a macro lens and a holder for the transparency. It will take a reasonable photo at about 6 meg for a .jpg. Cost was $1500 for the camera and $500 for the lens and about $150 for the frame. The only problem is all the dust on the slide. You can remove it with post processing but is a real pain to do 500-600 slides. Cheap places will scan for less than $.50 per slide with pretty good results. | |
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Equipment to Chang slides to digital file?
