Architecture - buildings that is

[The OB]

I realize that Europeans chuckle at the thought of buildings from the 13th Century being "old," but these have, after all, lain abandoned for quite some time. (Scanned from Ektachrome slides that had faded a bit since taken in 1974. The fetching young lady is my wife.)

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Hi Lanny, great pictures! Without wanting to get too far off topic, how did you get those photos onto the iPad from the slides via "scanning"? Was that using some specific equipment, or a commercial development shop? I have hundreds of slides from the 70s (kodachrome, fujichrome) which we viewed on a Leica projector and screen. And that is the extent of my technical knowledge. I must admit I haven't enquired since. And yes, fetching indeed
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[Richard Brown]

Hi Lanny, great pictures! Without wanting to get too far off topic, how did you get those photos onto the iPad from the slides via "scanning"? Was that using some specific equipment, or a commercial development shop? I have hundreds of slides from the 70s (kodachrome, fujichrome) which we viewed on a Leica projector and screen. And that is the extent of my technical knowledge. I must admit I haven't enquired since. And yes, fetching indeed
Andrew

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I have much the same - a lot of boxes full of slides. I purchased an Epson perfection 2480 Photo scanner. It does a pretty good job. However, it sits in mothballs waiting for the huge task of slide scanning to start. Photo editing programmes are good now, and this should help in editing the scans.

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[Richard Brown]

I searched iPF for scanning slides, but no luck. Only 2 hits - 2 posts not related to the particular subject of scanning photo slides into an iPad

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[The OB]

I have much the same - a lot of boxes full of slides. I purchased an Epson perfection 2480 Photo scanner. It does a pretty good job. However, it sits in mothballs waiting for the huge task of slide scanning to start. Photo editing programmes are good now, and this should help in editing the scans.

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Thanks Richard. Seems a scanner of some sorts will be required. Got to stop being lazy and do some searching myself
Andrew


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[LannyC]

I borrowed a Nikon slide copier from a friend. He said it belonged to his father, and is at least 40 years old. Basically, it holds a slide in front of a translucent light diffuser, and a camera (not included) shoots the illuminated slide. It works fine with modern digital cameras. He built a stand from wood to keep the light source, the copier, and the camera aligned. The copying went surprisingly quickly, once everything was adjusted and clean.

There were two challenges: a light source (I used a cheap 9-LED flashlight) and DUST. The better--and the more often--you clean the slide and the diffuser, the less touch-up work later in Photoshop to remove the blemishes. The flashlight shone down the middle of a cardboard toilet paper core lined with aluminum foil. There was a little vignetting, but not too bad.

A digital slide scanner will take much longer. They're also pretty expensive. I don't know if photo stores still scan slides to CD at a reasonable price.

Good luck. It's well worth doing!

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[The OB]

I borrowed a Nikon slide copier from a friend. He said it belonged to his father, and is at least 40 years old. Basically, it holds a slide in front of a translucent light diffuser, and a camera (not included) shoots the illuminated slide. It works fine with modern digital cameras. He built a stand from wood to keep the light source, the copier, and the camera aligned. The copying went surprisingly quickly, once everything was adjusted and clean.

There were two challenges: a light source (I used a cheap 9-LED flashlight) and DUST. The better--and the more often--you clean the slide and the diffuser, the less touch-up work later in Photoshop to remove the blemishes. The flashlight shone down the middle of a cardboard toilet paper core lined with aluminum foil. There was a little vignetting, but not too bad.

A digital slide scanner will take much longer. They're also pretty expensive. I don't know if photo stores still scan slides to CD at a reasonable price.

Good luck. It's well worth doing!

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Thanks for your detailed considerate reply Lanny. Yes that's brought back some memories. I remember now about those slide copiers, mainly reading about them but they were in use. Doubtful if you can get that equipment now, but if you could get one and use with a digital camera that would be great.

Just had a thought (I get them sometimes). I know you wouldn't get razor sharp pictures, but if I were to set up the slide projector and screen and then photographed the image on the screen with a digital camera, and then transfer the image onto the iPad, how sharp would the picture be on the iPad? I'm thinking maybe not that good but maybe usable?
Andrew



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[LannyC]

I have also seen a rear-projection slide copier. The type I used probably yields sharper, brighter images. Surely they turn up on eBay occasionally?

The problem with snapping a screen is loss of brightness and saturation. It's much, much better to make a good capture in the first place than to try to fix it in Photoshop later.

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[The OB]

I have also seen a rear-projection slide copier. The type I used probably yields sharper, brighter images. Surely they turn up on eBay occasionally?

The problem with snapping a screen is loss of brightness and saturation. It's much, much better to make a good capture in the first place than to try to fix it in Photoshop later.

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You're right, why go for something with so so results. Thanks for your ideas. I'm going to be looking into this more thoroughly.
Andrew


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[Richard Brown]

You're right, why go for something with so so results. Thanks for your ideas. I'm going to be looking into this more thoroughly.
Andrew

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How about back lighting the slide to photograph it. You will need to make a rig or use 2 tripods for stability.

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[Hayles66]

Okay. Can't believe this but I watched them build a 30 storey building in 15 days (yes, a lot was done in the factory). Now they believe they can build the tallest building in the world in 90 days??

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/can-china-really-build-the-worlds-tallest-building-in-90-days/

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[LannyC]

How about back lighting the slide to photograph it.

Oops, sorry I wasn't clear about that. The Nikon copier I used does backlight the slide.

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[Richard Brown]

You're right, why go for something with so so results. Thanks for your ideas. I'm going to be looking into this more thoroughly.
Andrew

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Oops, sorry I wasn't clear about that. The Nikon copier I used does backlight the slide.

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This is a interesting train of thought. My input was more thinking out aloud. I will be experimenting to see whether I can capture my slides by faster methods than on the Epson photo scanner.

I have loads of slides on architectural subjects. For example, slides taken during a camping tour of New Towns in Britain during the late 1960s. I must also look out slides I took at an exhibition of the perceived future for energy efficient houses. The exhibition was a medium sized site of show homes and display marquees at Milton Keynes. I think the exhibition was called Futurehome.

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[Richard Brown]

I had a quick dabble at photographing a slide on the iPad with Amplivision. It was a quick test. I took the slide in 1995.
The subject has some architectural merit.





I'm starting up a thread called "Imaging Discussions". I cannot think of anything better, but the title will do, as you will see in that thread.

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[scifan57]

I had a quick dabble at photographing a slide on the iPad with Amplivision. It was a quick test. I took the slide in 1995.
The subject has some architectural merit.

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I'm starting up a thread called "Imaging Discussions". I cannot think of anything better, but the title will do, as you will see in that thread.

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Looks like the vehicle assembly building at the Kennedy Space Centre, originally built to assemble the Saturn 5 launch vehicles for the Apollo program.

 

[Richard Brown]

Looks like the vehicle assembly building at the Kennedy Space Centre, originally built to assemble the Saturn 5 launch vehicles for the Apollo program.

Yes, that's the one. We enjoyed our visit to the Space Center. It's there that we first experienced an IMAX film. I've loads of slides from our Florida holiday. I think I'll be busy scanning!

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