There is a guy in Seattle named Andrew Filer, who I met in a then-hackerspace called Metrix:Create who modified a Kodak Carousel projector in such a way as to backlight the slides (reduced wattage of the bulb, replaced the heat shield with frosted glass), basically used the projector as a slide advancing robot, removed the lens, and aimed a digital SLR with a macro lens back at the slide and photographed the slide. With some simple transistor circuits, you could automate the camera's shutter release and the slide advance. You could do a whole tray of slides in a few minutes with very little supervision.
You need a digital SLR and a macro lens, preferably one with autofocus (as I discovered). But orders of magnitude less tedious than a flatbed scanner where you manually loaded slides into a holder, 12 at a time. On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 11:09 AM, Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtm...@gmail.com > wrote: > Russell, > > I would be interested in the method. Picture of a screen? > > -Denis > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 11:03 AM, Russell Senior < > russ...@personaltelco.net> > wrote: > > > Gotcha. I don't have any better solutions for that. > > > > If they were slides, I'd suggest the method I used in Seattle a few years > > ago, that went through about 3000+ slides in kodak projector carousels is > > an afternoon. Automation++. > > > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:32 AM, Michael Rasmussen <mich...@jamhome.us> > > wrote: > > > > > Of primary interest are 2 1/4 x 2 3/4 (6x9cm) negatives from my > > > grandparents. After that 35mm negatives. > > > > > > I was entrusted to my grandparents' negatives and am feeling a > > > responsibility to scan them into digital files for my relatives. > > > > > > > > > On 2018-06-27 10:10, Russell Senior wrote: > > > > > >> What kind of transparencies? If they are 35mm slides, and lots of > them, > > >> there is a better way. > > >> > > >> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 9:00 AM, Michael Rasmussen < > mich...@jamhome.us> > > >> wrote: > > >> > > >> In another group, it was suggested I try Vuescan from > > >>> https://www.hamrick.com/ > > >>> The free Linux download untars to three binaries. > > >>> > > >>> It just works. > > >>> > > >>> Now to, when I have time, figure out the issue with xsane. > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> On 2018-06-26 18:37, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > > >>> > > >>> I've acquired an Epson V500 flatbed scanner. After immediate install > of > > >>>> xsane and the Epson iscan drivers scanning does not work. I've > added > > >>>> myself to the scanner group and done a bit of unproductive googling. > > >>>> > > >>>> The sympton can be summed up: > > >>>> > > >>>> michael@camper:~$ scanimage -L > > >>>> device `epson:libusb:001:006' is a Epson flatbed scanner > > >>>> michael@camper:~$ scanimage -T > > >>>> scanimage: rounded value of br-x from -32768 to -32768 > > >>>> scanimage: rounded value of br-y from -32768 to -32768 > > >>>> scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument > > >>>> michael@camper:~$ > > >>>> > > >>>> If you have a cluestick on what needs to be done, I'm ready for a > > whack. > > >>>> > > >>> > > > -- > > > Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon > > > Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PLUG mailing list > > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
