Am looking for an easy/effective way of transfering a large number of color slides to digital photos?

Answer 1

You need a slide scanner. It's a small machine that plugs into your computer. You place the slide into a slot and the image is digitized and transfered to the computer. Here is a page that reviews different scanners and tell how they work: http://www.flatbed-scanner-review.org/35mm_slide_film_scanners/35mm_film_slide_scanners.html

Answer 2

Old guy has a decent idea. I actually SOLD a slide copier not too long ago. It attaches to the lens of your camera. It takes a few tries to get the white balance right, but once you are set up, you can go like blazes copying from slide to digital. However... I wanted better quality and bought a nice scanner. At the time I was using the slide copier, I was only using a 3 MP camera and it just wasn't up to the task of serious copy work.

Answer 3

If you really have a "large number" of slides and want good quality the easiest way is going to be sending them out to be done professionally. This will of course start to get expensive; but you didn't say "cheapest way". ;-)

Using a slide copier and a good macro lens (flat field of focus) is an easy way but the quality may not be so great.

For best quality, use a dedicated 35mm film scanner. Unfortunately, having done this myself it does take a "long" time to load, scan, and unload lots of slides. Take a look at the Nikon 5000 ED: it is a good quality scanner, but the real benefit is that you can get an optional slide feeder which is a must (for your sanity) if you have a lot of slides to scan.

Answer 4

If you want a real fast and easy way to do it just photograph them. Set your digital camera on a tripod, and make something to hold your slide in front of it, focus, set your flash behind the slide and you can do hundreds as fast as you can change the slide and click the shutter. Quality is excellent, depending on how good a camera you use.

Answer 5

i could reproduction them to a disk and do it domestically. yet! ... i'm hoping you're no longer anticipating to get high quality prints from the digital mail length information. confirm to apply basically information that are a minimum of 200 dpi (ideally 3 hundred) on the objective length in case you want dcent print high quality. digital mail sized information are seventy two dpi and could on no account print properly ... different than as postage stamps.

Answer 6

Hi, you can use Google picasa to help your photo management.

picasa is a Google's photo software. It's what should've come with your camera.

It can Edit , organise and Share you picture and small video flips.

It's very easy to use and is free, just like Google

Download it free in here:

http://www.bernanke.cn/google-picasa/

Good Luck and Best Wishes!