Slides, the 35mm kind - RV-Dreams Community Forum

Dave Buck · RV-Dreams Family Member

Slides, the 35mm kind

Jo And Craig · RV-Dreams Family Member

Funny you asked! I am doing, somewhat, the very same thing this very minute! I am sitting here going through my photos on CD, getting ready to download photos of family into my digital photo viewer in preparation for when we set sail! We have about another year, Lord willing, but I am preparing nevertheless. I also plan to put certain things in a scrapbook so I can take my memories with me!

I just Googled "converting slides to a DVD" and it can be done. ehow.com said to display them on a screen as you would normally, set your digital camera on a tripod, and take a photo of the slide on the screen. The photo must be clear, of course. But, with a little online research, it can be done.

Good luck!

Dave Buck · RV-Dreams Family Member

Thanks, That's exactly what my wife said to do but I thought there must be a better way.

bjoyce · RV-Dreams Family Member

There are slide scanners out there. A friend got one off ebay, converted his slides and negatives and then sold it on ebay.

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

One can also check with camera stores. I know of at least two places in the Oklahoma City area, for instance, that can convert slides to digital. Believe me, they will have the ability to do it a lot faster than we as individuals can likely do.

I tried doing that job a few years ago, even before the planning for full-time RV'ing and found that it is a long process. I even had a photo printer with scan capability, but it wasn't easy to do and took a lot of time. I would have had to work every photo in imaging software, just to make it "halfway" right.

One could try taking pictures of the slide being displayed, but you might lose some quality of the photo.

Terry

The Bear II · RV-Dreams Family Member

I've noticed that walmart, costco, sams club and many of the office supply and drug stores offer that service.

I used to do it professionally and had all of the latest equipment....even with the right equipment it is very boring to do. Each slide takes about 3 minutes by the time you get it into the computer and ready to load on to a CD or DVD.

My dad had thousands of slides...I spent one Thanksgiving vacation week converting them about 2 hours each day. I missed out on socializing with family & friends.

Pay to have it done. Drop off the slides and pick them back up along with your CD/DVD.

NWescapee · RV-Dreams Family Member

Great idea, we're just starting to look at this, but with the number of slides our parents have that they want us to scan we were wondering how to get it done before we sell the house and the scanner. Sams Club, here I come!!

NorCal Dan · RV-Dreams Family Member

I bought one of those scanners a few years ago, worked great for both negatives and positives. Yes it was time consuming but we were getting ready to go full-time and I wanted everything digitized. Once you have the images on your computer you can burn them to DVD.