Portrait of Eileen:
January 21, 2024 by Paul Goldfinger photography
Bringing back color slides. Paul Goldfinger photograph.
Have you ever gone through old family photos and come across 35 mm color slides? You may recall viewing such slides using a Kodak “Carousel” projector. I used to use Kodachrome slide film. The quality was excellent.
So now you may have slides but no projector, and besides you would like to turn those photos into digital files.
This photo was pretty dusty, with scrapes and scratches. I have an Epson V600 scanner which I use mostly for scanning documents and photo prints. This slide of Eileen is now a digital file which can be turned into prints or Facebook entries or blog posts.
But this scanner comes with a plastic holder which accepts 4 slides at time. I haven’t perfected the process yet, but I will keep trying.
There are also small desktop units designed to scan slides. They are inexpensive, but I have little experience with them. Theoretically this Epson scanner should create superior results, but we’ll see. Ultimately the quality relates to the original
So those old slides which you have unearthed undoubtedly contain some family treasures. You might consider working on them. It’s good to do on a rainy. (or snowy) day.
I bet Paul Simon will have his slides scanned:
I have a negative scanner, but like you say, it is time consuming, but it is satisfying to convert an old negative into a new positive. Paul
For those of us who have lots of slides (and negatives too) converting to digital is quite a project . It is well worthwhile though. Make extra copies to give to family .