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Walleye

(33,709 posts) Thu Jul 18, 2024, 12:28 PM Jul 18

NYC W. 48th St. circa 1984. Looking out my apartment window.

I’m trying to get a good system for digitally copying my old Kodachromes so this is a start.

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NYC W. 48th St. circa 1984. Looking out my apartment window. (Original Post) Walleye Jul 18 OP

How cool is that??? Thank you!!! niyad Jul 18 #1

I love old photographs! Diamond_Dog Jul 18 #2

Yes, I did. I liked living there. I left to get a job for a newspaper. It's tough to live there. Walleye Jul 18 #3

A time capsule of a different/missed environment Traurigkeit Jul 18 #4

Years ago i built a mall light box for my copy stand. Scruffy1 Jul 18 #5

Thanks for the suggestion. I am trying to develop a system. Walleye Jul 18 #6

How are you digitally copying now? Bundbuster Jul 19 #7

I'm still working on a good system, but basically it involves a backlight on the slides and a macro lens on my digital Walleye Jul 19 #8

niyad

(117,641 posts)

1. How cool is that??? Thank you!!!

Reply to Walleye (Original post)

Thu Jul 18, 2024, 12:37 PM

Jul 18

Diamond_Dog

(33,624 posts)

2. I love old photographs!

Reply to Walleye (Original post)

Thu Jul 18, 2024, 01:30 PM

Jul 18

Very cool! Did you like living there?

Walleye

(33,709 posts)

3. Yes, I did. I liked living there. I left to get a job for a newspaper. It's tough to live there.

Reply to Diamond_Dog (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 18, 2024, 01:58 PM

Jul 18

Traurigkeit

(1,290 posts)

4. A time capsule of a different/missed environment

Reply to Walleye (Original post)

Thu Jul 18, 2024, 02:49 PM

Jul 18

Scruffy1

(3,397 posts)

5. Years ago i built a mall light box for my copy stand.

Reply to Walleye (Original post)

Thu Jul 18, 2024, 08:15 PM

Jul 18

It's simple. you just need a light, something to difuse the light like a piece of plastic or even a non see through plastic bag. My locating device is two strips of wood glued in place (popsicle sticks are fine). The hole in the box should be a little larger then the exposed film portion. Two hundred slides an hour no problem. Scanning would take forever.

Walleye

(33,709 posts)

6. Thanks for the suggestion. I am trying to develop a system.

Reply to Scruffy1 (Reply #5)

Thu Jul 18, 2024, 08:18 PM

Jul 18

Bundbuster

(4,018 posts)

7. How are you digitally copying now?

Reply to Walleye (Original post)

Fri Jul 19, 2024, 03:47 PM

Jul 19

I've been thinking of getting this Kodak Digital Film Scanner, but am not sure about the quality I'd get from 50 year old slides.

Walleye

(33,709 posts)

8. I'm still working on a good system, but basically it involves a backlight on the slides and a macro lens on my digital

Reply to Bundbuster (Reply #7)

Fri Jul 19, 2024, 05:36 PM

Jul 19

Camera, with a paper towel tube cut to the length of the focus. It’s not perfect, but the quality isn’t bad. The Kodachrome hold up very well but the Ektachromes and probably any Kodacolor might suffer some fading, but these have been in their boxes in a closet for a while.

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