Slides to digital

[Mr Coeur de Lion]

Does anyone know of a service that will scan in old slides and convert to digital?

Would it be the sort of service a camera shop could handle?

I've got a heap and want to get rid of them, but not before scannning them.

[Clarkkent]

There are plenty of firms that will do it in the UK. Go into any Jessops and enquire. On line, a firm called Mr Scan will charge about 25p per slide.

If you have hundreds of slides you might consider buying a dedicated slide scanner but you are talking £400 or so for a Nikon. Cheap scanners can be found for about £70 - but these are really cameras which photograph the slide rather than scan it. If you want to buy a flat-bed scanner you will find that several have slide scanner attachments.

In short - it should be easy for you to convert your slides.

[Mr Coeur de Lion]

Thanks.

Ended up buying one of the cheap ones off ebay.

Should do the job, they don't need to be top quality, just good enough to see well.

Got a price at a local photo store and they wanted a euro a slide. I have around 125, so it made sense to go this way.

I'll sell the scanner once I've used it.

[Jonzjob]

OK CdL, how did you get on with your slide scanner? Has it done the job?

[Mr Coeur de Lion]

Yep, bought it for €68, scanned all my slides in, then sold it on ebay for €58.

Job lot done for €10 as opposed to a professional for about 10 times that amount.