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Watching this with interest ...
This week I've been scanning old printed photos onto the PC and am now looking for ways to scan more photos from 35mm slides & negatives.
As a background project, I have 4 large boxes of dealer issue motorcycle 'fiche from the 90s (covering dozens / hundreds of machines !).
In the past I tried digitising them using a flatbed scanner, The results were useful as a guide but realistically they were unusable and it took a lot of time to set up each slide.
If anyone has a simple solution to scan 'fiche / 35mm slides & negatives - ideally using my existing laptop/scanner setup - let me know
A friend has a couple of big desktop 'fiche readers I could use for viewing but that won't help me to scan them ( even if it would, I can't spend several days at his place doing the work, and his equipment is too big for me to bring back to my place)
My 'fiche attempts so far using a scanner, feel free to learn from my mistakes
It makes sense to use the equipment I already have rather than buy another big / expensive / rarely used scan / digitise / processing bit of kit.
I already have a good DSLR camera so the film holder by Pixl-Latr looks promising (and it's UK made at a fair price) https://www.pixl-latr.com/
Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
This week I've been scanning old printed photos onto the PC and am now looking for ways to scan more photos from 35mm slides & negatives.
As a background project, I have 4 large boxes of dealer issue motorcycle 'fiche from the 90s (covering dozens / hundreds of machines !).
In the past I tried digitising them using a flatbed scanner, The results were useful as a guide but realistically they were unusable and it took a lot of time to set up each slide.
If anyone has a simple solution to scan 'fiche / 35mm slides & negatives - ideally using my existing laptop/scanner setup - let me know
A friend has a couple of big desktop 'fiche readers I could use for viewing but that won't help me to scan them ( even if it would, I can't spend several days at his place doing the work, and his equipment is too big for me to bring back to my place)
My 'fiche attempts so far using a scanner, feel free to learn from my mistakes
It makes sense to use the equipment I already have rather than buy another big / expensive / rarely used scan / digitise / processing bit of kit.
I already have a good DSLR camera so the film holder by Pixl-Latr looks promising (and it's UK made at a fair price) https://www.pixl-latr.com/
Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
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I have a German device at work, I picked it up in the trash, for viewing film films on a screen with optical illumination. Inside is a rewinder, a lamp, an optical system and a matte screen. I googled out of interest what it was, on ebay there were such offers inexpensively. I'll take a picture and post it. I can donate a device.
