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company to scan old stero slides?

Started Apr 30, 2021 | Discussions
brick33308
brick33308 Veteran Member • Posts: 6,297
company to scan old stero slides?

I've got a bunch of stereo slides that my father took many years ago and looking for recommendation of a company who can scan them and output to .jpg. Any suggestions?

Least expensive I've found so far is ScanCafe who charges $1.09/slide.

threed123
threed123 Senior Member • Posts: 1,490
Re: company to scan old stero slides?

Many services will scan one of the images, but not sure both. This one says they scan stereo slides, but says, one image. Price is reasonable. Of course, it's always good to get the highest DPI possible, so that's another consideration. I'm guessing this service would do both images and you would have to recreate an MPO image using www.stereomaker.com for example. When in doubt ask...Slide Scanning Service | Convert Slides to Digital Service (smoothphotoscanning.com)

Here's a do-it-yourself method for a small upright scanner such as the Nikon Coolscan

stereoscopy.com - FAQ

I have scanned over a 1,000 with my Epson bed scanner, but you have to make a mask for the slide to lift it up to the same level as a film holder does, so you get good focus. Then I clean up the images in an editing program and create MPO files in Stereomaker. It took a long, long time to do, but was worth it. I put them on a bluray disk to view with my 3D projector.

brick33308
OP brick33308 Veteran Member • Posts: 6,297
Re: company to scan old stero slides?

threed123 wrote:

Many services will scan one of the images, but not sure both. This one says they scan stereo slides, but says, one image. Price is reasonable. Of course, it's always good to get the highest DPI possible, so that's another consideration. I'm guessing this service would do both images and you would have to recreate an MPO image using www.stereomaker.com for example. When in doubt ask...Slide Scanning Service | Convert Slides to Digital Service (smoothphotoscanning.com)

Here's a do-it-yourself method for a small upright scanner such as the Nikon Coolscan

stereoscopy.com - FAQ

I have scanned over a 1,000 with my Epson bed scanner, but you have to make a mask for the slide to lift it up to the same level as a film holder does, so you get good focus. Then I clean up the images in an editing program and create MPO files in Stereomaker. It took a long, long time to do, but was worth it. I put them on a bluray disk to view with my 3D projector.

thanks!

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