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Is there something you can use to turn old photo slides into photos?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Yes if you Google slide converts you'll see lots of options which plug into your computer and some independent ones. They look a bit fiddly to use. There are photographic shops which will also do this for you.
http://www.johnlewis.com/ion-slides-forever-desktop-slide-film-scanner/p231754881?sku=231754881&s_kwcid=2dx92700016622244881&tmad=c&tmcampid=2&gclid=COeKgLm9xNECFYM4GwodqswCxA&gclsrc=aw.ds
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You can scan them.
Do you have a scanner and does it have a transpnarancy unit?
http://www.ebuyer.com/542907-epson-perfection-v550-photo-scanner-b11b210301?mkwid=ssBnsIpVe_dt&;pcrid=51482414939&pkw=&pmt=&gclid=CPzLiby9xNECFWcq0wodh9gF6w
Or you can get a slide scanner
http://www.johnlewis.com/ion-slides-forever-desktop-slide-film-scanner/p231754881?sku=231754881&s_kwcid=2dx92700016622244881&tmad=c&tmcampid=2&gclid=CJDO5sq9xNECFWYq0wodgM4JuQ&gclsrc=aw.ds
Don't know if the photo areas at Tesco etc. do slide scanning.
Do you have a scanner and does it have a transpnarancy unit?
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Or you can get a slide scanner
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Don't know if the photo areas at Tesco etc. do slide scanning.
Yes but it's fiddly!
You need a film scanner, like this one:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/ion-slides-forever-film-and-slide-scanner-a76lb
They work in a similar way to normal flat-bed scanners but they use transmitted light (passed through the slides) instead of reflected light (bounced off a document).
At one time you had to pay thousands of pounds for a film scanner that had a good enough resolution to produce decent results but these days even cheap film scanners can do a remarkably good job. Even with the very best ones though you often need to fiddle with the colour settings (using an image editor) to get images looking exactly as they should. (Otherwise you might find that there's a colour cast on your images). So that's why I've described the task as rather 'fiddly'.
Once you've scanned the images to your computer (and tweaked them in an image editor, if necessary) you can print them out on your home inkjet printer or take them into a high street photo processing shop (on, say, a USB stick) for them to do the job for you.
However if you've only got a very small number of slides to scan it would be easier and cheaper to go straight to the photo processing shop in the first place, as they can convert slides to photos directly.
You need a film scanner, like this one:
http://
They work in a similar way to normal flat-bed scanners but they use transmitted light (passed through the slides) instead of reflected light (bounced off a document).
At one time you had to pay thousands of pounds for a film scanner that had a good enough resolution to produce decent results but these days even cheap film scanners can do a remarkably good job. Even with the very best ones though you often need to fiddle with the colour settings (using an image editor) to get images looking exactly as they should. (Otherwise you might find that there's a colour cast on your images). So that's why I've described the task as rather 'fiddly'.
Once you've scanned the images to your computer (and tweaked them in an image editor, if necessary) you can print them out on your home inkjet printer or take them into a high street photo processing shop (on, say, a USB stick) for them to do the job for you.
However if you've only got a very small number of slides to scan it would be easier and cheaper to go straight to the photo processing shop in the first place, as they can convert slides to photos directly.
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