Anyone Familiar With A Shop That 'Xfers Slides To C/D?

[Boon Mee]

Accumulated many years of photographic slides I need to get transferred to C/D before they rot away.

Is anyone familiar with a shop or business in the Bangkok area that does that sort of work?

Cheers in advance!

BM

[slackula]

If you have a lot of slides to scan you'll probably be better off buying a slide scanner and doing it yourself.

They can be bought for a lot less than 100$ and unless you want to make billboards out of them the resolution is fine. While it may take time to do it you'll have the chance to organize the files onto your computer in the way you want them.

4 Ways to Digitally Scan 35mm Slides - wikiHow

[Boon Mee]

If you have a lot of slides to scan you'll probably be better off buying a slide scanner and doing it yourself.

They can be bought for a lot less than 100$ and unless you want to make billboards out of them the resolution is fine. While it may take time to do it you'll have the chance to organize the files onto your computer in the way you want them.

4 Ways to Digitally Scan 35mm Slides - wikiHow

Great information, QC! Thanks man!

I have 10 or 12 carousel trays full (140 slides per tray) so I might look into getting a slide scanner. I have a flatbed scanner but the work involved in doing it that way seems daunting plus the degraded resolution.

I'm sure Pantip Plaza or similar will have that specific slide scanner. Thanks again for the heads-up!

[misskit]

Slide scanner is the way to go.

After scanning your images, it would be better to transfer them to an external hard drive or a memory stick.

CDs are outdated for this kind of use.

[Boon Mee]

Slide scanner is the way to go.

After scanning your images, it would be better to transfer them to an external hard drive or a memory stick.

CDs are outdated for this kind of use.

Good idea. I have an external hard drive and a drawer full of memory sticks with basically nothing on them but junk music I've been meaning to delete for a while now.

See...TD is useful for stuff besides Political wind-ups!

Thanks again you guys...

[Thormaturge]

Thanks from me too.

I dug my slide collection out only two weeks ago and was wondering the same thing.

Most of my slides are 30 years old and the memories are irreplaceable.

[Boon Mee]

Thanks from me too.

I dug my slide collection out only two weeks ago and was wondering the same thing.

Most of my slides are 30 years old and the memories are irreplaceable.

The humidity over here is a killer on negatives.

[Albert Shagnastier]

If you're in Bangers Booners, on the corner where Soi Lad Phrao and Phaholyothin meet there are lots of old school photography shops. I buy old style film there and get it processed and digitized. They charge me 150bt to develop a film (36 shots) and scan the negs to disk.

It won't cost you much.

I'd get them to do it because they have high quality scanners and you can use them cheaply.

[slackula]

They charge me 150bt to develop a film (36 shots) and scan the negs to disk.

Even at that rate Boon Mee is better off buying a slide scanner and doing it himself.

If he has 10-12 trays containing 140 slides each it is going to take a long time to digitize them all. Even if he splashes out and pays 3,000 Baht for a scanner he's going to have much more control over which pics he keeps and which ones he discards and can make a nice tidy folder on his comp to organise everything in the way he wants it.

If he gets his own scanner he can just let it plough through them at his own pace while he abuses me on the political threads!

When he's done he can give it to Thormaturge in exchange for a fish.

[Albert Shagnastier]

^Fair enough

[Takeovers]

Buying and then reselling a scanner is a way to do it. But it still is some work and a good scanner is not cheap.

I would inquire at a shop about prices and see samples of their quality. There is great software that eliminates dust and scratches while scanning, all not too easy and cheap to do yourself.

I did it by converting my own projector and DSLR to convert my slides with reasonable result. Directly shooting the slide, not the projection. Almost no cost but a lot of work put into it.