does anyone know how to convert digital images into slids?

Question

I'm preparing for an graduate art school. and I'm supposed to turn in 20 slids of portfolio. but things is since my works were mostly done in computer, I need to change them into slids.
do I have to print out and take pictures of them, like the traditional way?

Answer 1

From one graduate student to another, there are better ways to convert your digital files to slides. The aforementioned technique will yield either a pixelized looking image or an image that is choppy because you have to shoot tv's or computers with a shutter speed of around 1/60 of a second because of a monitors refresh rate.
So my solution is that I am guessing that your art school probably has a photography department. I am also guessing that they most likely have a film recorder which in essence takes a digital file and puts it onto slide film or negative film. In terms of presentation quality, it is good enough for gallery/museums to project or simply look on a light table. Thankfully most galleries seem to be more relaxed about accepting CD's or DVD's but for the good 50% of the galleries that dont accept computer media buy a Polaroid ProPalette 8000 Film Recorder.
Also just to let you know, if you contact a professional photo finishing shop, they sometimes have a film recorder, as well as there are online places that you can go to, to upload your images to a server to be recorded onto film, although beit the prices are sometimes high, around $40 for say 15-20 slides(although I am sure you can find a better deal)..I included a link to a service bureau below. good luck!

Answer 2

The traditional method should would work.

Load a camera with a 36 exposure roll of slide film and put it on a tripod facing the CRT. Use a daylight balanced, E-6 processing compatible film with average to low contrast.

Make sure you have set the monitor gamma and color temperature, etc to match photo shop or your image temperatures. Set the CRT temperature to around 6000K (or daylight) and also to its highest resolution.

Turn off all other lights. Put several average images on the screen to get an average meter reading for it (move the camera up close enough that you're not reading any of the surrounding black).

Frame it so that it fits onto the slide. To avoid getting the sides of the monitor, you may want to reduce the displayed size on the monitor (take it in 1/2" from full-screen).
A SLR usually displays only about 96% of the image area, but that's ok because that's about what a slide mount cuts off anyway.

Set the camera for manual operation and pick a shutter speed that is lower than the monitors refresh rate and a corresponding aperture for the correct exposure. If you have an interlaced image, make the shutter speed less that 1/2 of that.

Display your images full screen and take the slides.
Bracket as much as you have film (if you had 12 images, you'd do one at metered reading, one 1/2 stop over, and one 1/2 stop under).

A test roll would be nice if you have time and/or can find a local lab that does slides (E-6) processing. Pick the 3 or 4 toughest images and bracket the hell out of them and change the monitor temperature also.
WRITE DOWN WHICH FRAME is WHICH EXPOSURE, ETC.

Project them and see which are best.

Answer 3

i live in a city where i can't see a new eos 400 but our photo store has this machine that via a wire makes slides the old way they come out reallly nice they use thi machine to make back up from digital data odd isn't it??

Answer 4

I have to do this too, and was going to post the same question. Sorry I don't have an answer--I am posting just so I can follow this thread, though, because Yahoo doesn't have it's "watch list" anymore for interesting questions. Good luck to us both!

Answer 5

http://blog.photoblogs.org/2005/03/23/from-digital-to-slide/

google search : digital to slides