Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 18, 2023 16:29:49 GMT -8
I just had one of these Kodak slide viewers delivered today. Quick Review: For $31.00 it does the job, although I wish the light behind it was brighter. I may look at modding options for that.
But the theory is that I will use this to sort through my father's old 35mm slide collection in order to choose the ones that I want to digitize.
And this is all definitely "in theory." But as Mr. Kung notes: The first step...blah blah blah.
This Kodak slide viewer is heads-and-tails over trying to use a light table or some other method. The digitizing part is the question. I have an Epson Perfection 500. And although this model is more than a few years old, it makes truly excellent scans...up to 6400 dpi. That is somewhere between 4k and 8k resolution. It's very capable.
But even so, the scanning process is a little slow, thus the need to sort only the ones I want to scan. But this is a big job. I may do a few of the Bell and Howell "cubes" and see how it goes.
I believe my father at one point had the typical Kodak carousel system. But at some point he went to the Bell and Howell cube system. Either may be problematic in terms of the slides jamming. And I still have one of these Bell and Howell units that works. But I find it fairly cumbersome to use. And even with a proper screen to project onto (which I don't have), the images aren't all that sharp. But I scanned a few (at 2400 dpi) and displayed them on my HDTV and they looked great, so that's the hope of digitizing them. Once digitized, they will be quite easy to view on an HDTV and they will look great.
But the theory is that I will use this to sort through my father's old 35mm slide collection in order to choose the ones that I want to digitize.
And this is all definitely "in theory." But as Mr. Kung notes: The first step...blah blah blah.
This Kodak slide viewer is heads-and-tails over trying to use a light table or some other method. The digitizing part is the question. I have an Epson Perfection 500. And although this model is more than a few years old, it makes truly excellent scans...up to 6400 dpi. That is somewhere between 4k and 8k resolution. It's very capable.
But even so, the scanning process is a little slow, thus the need to sort only the ones I want to scan. But this is a big job. I may do a few of the Bell and Howell "cubes" and see how it goes.
I believe my father at one point had the typical Kodak carousel system. But at some point he went to the Bell and Howell cube system. Either may be problematic in terms of the slides jamming. And I still have one of these Bell and Howell units that works. But I find it fairly cumbersome to use. And even with a proper screen to project onto (which I don't have), the images aren't all that sharp. But I scanned a few (at 2400 dpi) and displayed them on my HDTV and they looked great, so that's the hope of digitizing them. Once digitized, they will be quite easy to view on an HDTV and they will look great.
