Does anyone know of any uk businesses which provide this service and if so what are approximate costs.
2007-08-21 08:06:57 · 8 answers · asked by pops 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
In the USA, Wal*Mart, a mass-merchandiser with a photo section, will do it for US 29 cents a slide - they put them on CD as JPEG files. So will just about any photo finishing studio. We have Kinko's, too - they do printing, copying and graphics work, including transfering slides to CD's. If they don't have branches in the UK, you must have the equivalent; even though you drive on the wrong side of the street and talk funny, your needs are about the same as ours, and there must be businesses to meet them.
Call some photo finishing outlets and ask them how much it costs to "Transfer slides to CD" - they may not know what a JPEG is.
If you have a couple of thousand slides, it may pay you to get a scanner with a slide attachment and do it yourself. If not, what I do is ask them when they are least busy, and if I can stand there while they do it; that way I know they are working reasonably carefully and my precious slides don't get lost.
2007-08-21 08:21:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't think of the well-known is going to get any further perfect. A jpeg is a compressed record and the seen high quality is many times lost while a image is converted to a jpeg record so in case you attempt to make the image look better it shouldn't help changing it to a bitmap image. Buf if that's not what you are trying to do then you quite can in simple terms use MS Paint and open the record and shop As a bitmap.
2016-11-13 02:25:11 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The larger Boots stores and Jessops both can copy them onto a CD for you. Once there, a program such as Paint Shop Pro can load them from the CD and save them in whatever format you wish.
However, this can become expensive. A good quality scanner, which has facilities for negatives, would give you far better flexibility and if you discover a damaged negative, a better chance to resolve any issues.
2007-08-21 08:21:24 · answer #3 · answered by Post Girl 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you own a scanner you can do it yourself. You can get a special little "box" that you place the slide in that has mirrors to reflect light through it. Then you scan it in like you would any other picture. As the price to have a pro scan in slides is usually $2-5 each, it can be very expensive to have someone do that for you.
2007-08-21 08:17:18 · answer #4 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you really want this done, I would suggest you buy a copy of the weekly magazine 'Amateur Photographer' which has many ads from which you will be able to find a lab to do this job. But why convert them to JPGs? It is far better to save any pictures you scan as TIFFs which is 'lossless' (although the files will be bigger)
2007-08-22 00:18:08 · answer #5 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A professional lab will charge you per image for this. It may be worth your while to get your own negative scanner and do the job yourself. E-bay often have secondhand scanners. They are easy to use and so worthwhile if you have many photographs.
The charges vary. It may be very expensive.
2007-08-23 05:54:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you've got more than about 20, it's cheaper to buy a scanner and do it yourself.
2007-08-21 08:13:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i did this once and they turned out not to bad project them in a very dark room and photograph them again with a digital camera then just clean them up with paint photoshop or something
2007-08-21 08:16:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋