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From: drudetb@infonode.ingr.com (Ted B. Drude)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: digitizing 35mm slides
Message-ID: <1991May31.155315.12012@infonode.ingr.com>
Date: 31 May 91 15:53:15 GMT
References: <91148.144117ATDYW@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
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In article <91148.144117ATDYW@ASUACAD.BITNET> ATDYW@ASUACAD.BITNET writes:

>Does anyone out there know a good way to digitize 35mm slides OTHER than
>taking video camera shots of the displayed slides and digitizing the vcr
>output? Any help will be appreciated <DW>.

If you have access to a color flatbed scanner that doesn't take 
slides, (like some of the cheaper Sharp models, I think) you can always
get a an enlarged color print made of the slide and scan it.  Get a
pro-quality color lab to make the print for you. It shouldn't cost more
than $20 for an 8.5x11. (Kodak makes reversal color print paper
especially for printing slides.)

Unless you have a really good video camera and excellent digitizing
hardware,  scanning a transparency or print should produce a shaper image
(IMHO).

- Ted Drude (drudetb@ingr)