The HP ScanJet Desktop scanner will scan slides; it has a special
attachment and it scans the part where you have placed slides. It
works very well.
Kay Weisman, Librarian
Willowbrook School
Glenview, IL 60026
kweisman@comcast.net
On Mar 5, 2008, at 12:51 PM, Sarah Loch wrote:
> I received several requests for a hit, so here it is. Most of the
> responses I received did not have the information I had asked for.
>
> Original post:
>
> I searched the archives on this, but the most recent hit was from 2005
> and was about how to scan slides yourself.
>
> One of our teachers would like to take her collection of 35mm
> slides and
> turn them into PowerPoints. Once they're scanned, I can help her with
> the PowerPoint aspect. What I need to know is, have any of you sent
> your
> slides off or taken them in somewhere to be digitized? Did you have a
> good experience? Bad experience? Anyone to watch out for?
>
> I will post a hit if there is interest. Thanks in advance,
>
> Responses:
>
> I purchased a slide scanner at Christmas for
> about $120. The brand name is veho. It is fairly
> simple to use and I successfully scanned many
> old slides with great success. The quality is
> quite amazing.
>
> Here is a link to the product:
>
> http://www.brookstone.com/search/search.asp?
> N=0&act=A30&search_type=search&Ntk=product&cmid=hdr_search&cm_re=B_Hdr
> *Search*N/A&Ntt=slide%20scanner&D=slide%20scanner&search_words=slide
> %20scanner
>
>
> If that doesn't work, go to brookstone.com and
> put slide scanner in the search box.
> ______________________________________________________________________
> _
>
> A local photography store may be able to do this for you.
>
> I've purchases a few scanners for my school which are capable of
> scanning film negatives and slides and saving them as digital images -
> my art teachers love them.
> ______________________________________________________________________
> __
>
> I personally used DigMyPics
> (http://www.digmypics.com/google.asp?gclid=CJuDm9G98ZECFQaOggodfGNeyA)
> or (http://www.digmypics.com/default.asp) and was very happy with the
> results, pricing and speed of service. No problems and the pictures
> were
> GREAT. Wanna see my parent’s wedding photos? I did something for their
> 50th Wedding Anniversary – perfect.
>
> Good luck. I just read a bunch of reviews and took a gamble, but was
> rewarded with great service.
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> ___
>
> Actually some of today's scanners come with come with the ability to
> digitize slides. My sister has an HP all-in-one that does a very nice
> job. Maybe someone you know has one. Wal-Mart I suspect also does
> it for
> a reasonable price.
> ______________________________________________________________________
> ____
>
> Although scanning 35 mm slides into a PPT program sounds like a good
> idea, it really isn't. The only exception is when the slide is a
> picture, rather than text, graphs or charts. The reasoning is that a
> 35mm slide has a curved surface, there are usually fingerprints on the
> emulsion, dust becomes embedded in the emulsion, the plastic or
> cardboard mounts become warped with heat from the projector, if the
> slide is not absolutely square in the mount it will make text and
> graphs
> look crooked. It is so much better to recreate a slide in powerpoint
> itself. I always tell my docs (I work in a medical library) to never
> throw away their source material when having a powerpoint program
> made.
> I hope this helps you.
> ______________________________________________________________________
> _____
>
> My husband found a box of old slides that he was able to scan using
> our
> desk top scanner. I was so amazed to find pictures I have not seen
> for
> over 30 years. They were of me when I was just 19 and pregnant
> with my
> first son, and when he was just born in the hospital. What a
> treat! and
> to think that they came from a scanner!!! I didn't even remember I
> had
> the box of slides.
> ______________________________________________________________________
> _____
>
> If your teacher purchased a scanner that scanned slides (not all of
> them
> do)
> she could scan them into her my pictures file and then import them
> into
> power point. The cannon (i believe) is 8400 has that capability. My
> father
> scanned all of our slides into the my picture file. He di
> d not put them
>
> into power point. We had at least 3000 withIt has a little device
> that allows you to put the slides into it and
> then it
> goes inside the scanner and you can scan about 12 slides at one time.
>
>
> Sarah Loch
> Librarian
> Valley Park Alternative School
> 4510 Bawell Street
> Baton Rouge, LA 70808
> 225-926-9765 x. 229
> SLoch@ebrpss.k12.la.us
>
> Currently reading "Pagan's Crusade" by Catherine Jinks and "Jenna
> Starborn" by Sharon Shinn
>
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