What do you mean a Shop.
Like taking them to Ritz Photo and transferig the slides to a CD-Rom?

UK London here .. but there has been much discussion here on this topic . . get some prices on the conversion to CD yeah? If money is tight then rethink ..

Grazie

Drag them to the project folder and Import them. Then use excalibur for the transitions.

B&C I went with the part of the quesiotn that went, "easiest and cheapest way to bring 35mm slides into Vegas" .. the easy bit is from there on in - yeah?

Grazie

Yeah!
I have several Carrousels with houndreds of slides.

WOW! I'll do some research for yah! .. hold on ..

Try this link . .

http://www.slidescanning.com/services/prices.htm?

They'ev got a calculator:

http://www.larsendigital.biz/slidescanorder.htm

Thank you Grazie

Pleasure! . .At least you've got some figures to compare with - yeah?

Grazie

Sorry, as usual I misread. Look up photoworks.com. They might do this.

If you have a very large number of slides and time on your hands, you may want to consider buying a slide scanner such as the Nikon Coolscan V or its predecessor the Coolscan IV.

The V sells for about $600 but can be resold for a good portion of its purchase price (check eBay). This may save you considerable $$ compared to the scanning services.

I agree with RalphM. If you have “hundreds” of slides, you may be better off buying or borrowing a film scanner and doing it yourself. This is especially true if your slides are irreplaceable, or if you are a stickler for quality. You will have much more control over the process if you scan the slides yourself, will likely end up with better digital images, and they will already be in the formats and resolutions specifically optimized for how you intend to use them in Vegas.

I’ve done this both ways and sending the slides out for scanning did not really save me much time, energy, or money. After getting some high resolution images back that had been scanned by an outside service, I ended up pulling most of them into PS (or PSP) for color corrections, scratch and dust removal, facial touch-ups, aligning horizons, etc., and then saving in a format (usually PNG) and at resolutions appropriate for the amount of pan/crop I intended for each image. I’ve since bought a scanner, scanned “hundreds” of images, and found that the workflow of scanning/re-touching doesn’t take any longer than re-touching itself. Also, I’ve found the whole hands-on process quite helpful in that it provides a good preview of each image which facilitates organizing the slide sequences.

JL

I agree with RalphM and JL. And if the slides are "vintage" don't forget to clean them before scanning them... it will make all the difference in the world!!!

TomG

Sorry if I've come to this a bit late in the day. I once helped clean 100s of slides for a big show and one thing I learnt was to put them into metal mounts that hold the slide between optical glass. Clean them first. Worst mounts are th cardboard ones, they hold moisture and long term encourage mold to grow on the slide.

Even if you don't need all the res I'd still scan them at as high a res as you can then burn that to archival CDs, you can down size to whatever you need now, who knows how much you'll need in the future.

Bob.

Buy the equipment and then open up a new business doing this stuff for others. You could even make videos, set to Royalty Free music too!

So, seems the consensus is to do it in-House - yours!. . Your call. Which way are you going to go?

Grazie