Slide printing

[maka76]

Hello,

This is my first post to this forum. I've been lurking for a while trying to decide what camera to buy after my FZ20 broke a few months ago.

But this post is about something else I've always loved watching slides since I was a kid. I still have our old proyector and was wondering if there is any easy way of making new slides from digital photos...

Is there a printer that can get the necessary resolution? If so, maybe printing on special transparency paper and mounting the slides by hand is an option... any ideas? Is there even a printer that is designed for this job?

Thanks a lot!

-Jorge

 

[Colin Dutton]

To do it right you'd need a film recorder, which don't come cheap. Then you'd have the film and processing costs to add on. Here's an example on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Polaroid-ProPalette-8000-Film-Recorder_W0QQitemZ230099633992QQcmdZViewItem

As an alternative, why not just buy a digital projector?

Colin.

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[JB Hurley]

I have some experience with film recorders, and all I can say is good luck. The film industry uses them with great success. I used to manage a digital retouching system that scanned the neg - we then digitally retouched - and then burned a new neg. If it worked one in 10 times I was happy.

 

[Petteri Sulonen]

Good ones are good enough for motion pictures, but don't have the resolution to do justice to slides. Other than film recorders, the closest you can get to a slide viewing experience with digital photos today is to view them on a big high-def TV, and even that's not very close.

Petteri
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[maka76]

I agree... I cannot afford a expensive one, and the cheap ones only have 800x600 points...

I thought there should be an inexpensive way of printing to a transparecy and then mounting the slide, but the resolution with my inkjet printer wouldn't be very good... Maybe the solution is to get one of the bigger transparencies projectors, and print to A4 size, but I'm not sure what the quality will be... and those projectors look expensive too...

Thanks,

-Jorge

 

[theatrus]

I agree... I cannot afford a expensive one, and the cheap ones
only have 800x600 points...

I thought there should be an inexpensive way of printing to a
transparecy and then mounting the slide, but the resolution with my
inkjet printer wouldn't be very good... Maybe the solution is to
get one of the bigger transparencies projectors, and print to A4
size, but I'm not sure what the quality will be... and those
projectors look expensive too...

I doubt that will get you good results, as most inkjets now are designed to print to white paper. The inks aren't designed for transparency.

Thanks,

-Jorge

 

[maka76]

I agree... I cannot afford a expensive one, and the cheap ones
only have 800x600 points...

I thought there should be an inexpensive way of printing to a
transparecy and then mounting the slide, but the resolution with my
inkjet printer wouldn't be very good... Maybe the solution is to
get one of the bigger transparencies projectors, and print to A4
size, but I'm not sure what the quality will be... and those
projectors look expensive too...

I doubt that will get you good results, as most inkjets now are
designed to print to white paper. The inks aren't designed for
transparency.

Isn't there a special transparent paper for inkjets? Or you mean the colors will come out wrong?

-Jorge