Re: Scanning 35mm Slides

"Richard Melville" <r_melville@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:LslKm.6155$rE5.4660@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have many old (going back 50 years) slides that I am planning to digitize.

My main purpose is to put them on CD and show them on my large screen TV.

So, the question is ---- is there any advantage to scanning at a resolution any higher than that which matches the TV, which is 1080 lines?

Since the TV is a DLP, my first inclination is to scan at about 1200dpi and convert the result to jpg with 1080 pixel heights.




Richard,

I don't want to get into the technical aspects of such a scanner, for others have already answered that far better than I could anyway. However, less then a year ago, I purchased such a slide scanner to, like you, convert hundreds of slides into a digital format. While this scanner does have many options for choosing the resolution, I did forget about one thing, that actually made a big difference. And that was the color.

Most of my slides were taken on a cross-country trip in 1973, and include such things as the Grand Canyon, Carlsbad Caverns, Walt Disney World, to name a few, in addition to many of the towns and scenery from a trip to Colorado. The one thing that really stood out about my original slides was the vivid colors. In spite of the fact that I had these slides stored in a dark closest, apparently the colors had faded somewhat over time. Even though I could enhance the colors somewhat with the slide scanner and programs such as Photoshop, it wasn't quite the same. Besides, I am certainly not going to devote the time necessary it would take to bring hundreds of slides 'back to life.' They came out alright, but not like the original originals... when I first took them.On the other hand, I'm sure no-one will notice, for they never saw the originals for comparison. But I have, and still remain somewhat disappointed even today.

John Sisker
"Pose & Go" Photography
www.tinplatedesign.com

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