We have thousands of colour slides that i would like to convert to digital pictures, but i also have thousands of black & white negatives from my photoghraphy days ! Does anyone have any experince of using a slide & negative digital convertor & do they work for black and white negatives.
My question is that the adverts say they do B/W negatives but does it actually revert the image or do i just get an image of the negative still in its negative state ? Its difficult to explain but those that have used one will understand .
Many thanks

OG, for what it's worth, I use an Epsom scanner that has a film/slide adapter. Then use Adobe Photoshop Elements to play with/adjust the results. Does neg to pos etc plus lots more. OK for small quantities but not for whole films etc. 10MY (Sept 09) TD4 HSE Auto in Stornoway Grey (Now Gone)

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Not a problem to convert either B/W or colour negs to positive digital images.

The only difficulty I have ever encountered was with some older negs that hadn't been fixed properly and had a higher content of silver remaining. That caused reflections in the actual scanning process which altered the contrast massively. The actual digital rendering is a doddle - most image software applications can handle this. Freelander 1 TD4 HSE - gone, 2 weeks after the Cat.Converter!
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Thanks for all your feed back guys's ,
good point raised about the epsom scanner as I have one too & it has loads of functions i have never used.
Cheers CG, may give them a ring.
Ohh looks like i could be busy in the new year

If you have lots to do, might be worth investing in a Nikon coolscan. They used to be the mutts nuts for scanning slides and negs.

The Nikons are great - I have a 9000 and a V ED - but Nikon have withdrawn from producing scanners for the UK. Plenty secondhand but getting them repaired/serviced is not easy and pricey.

If you are going to scan them yourself it is time consuming, setting up the correct colour profiles for the type of film can be hit and miss, how much Digital ICE to use to remove dust and scratches etc. etc.

I got my fathers slides and B&W negs scanned for me at a pro shop - Digi Scan in Leatherhead - it is not cheap but it will save your time and sanity.  Andy

If you've got a decent digital SLR, stick them on a light box and photograph them! Saves hours of messing around with scanners.

Hi Guy's
Well I purchased a Veho smart fix.
Fantastic tool, did 400+ B/W negatives yesterday, now all on a stick & we had some fun watching them on the TV. No image quality problems either for very old films & considering they are projected on a 60" TV

Colour slide, I have transferred 800+ today. Brilliant tool, automatically adjusts the light for each slide so digital pics quite uniform now. It was good enough for me, very quick, about 3 sec's a slide easy to use & cost me 69.95 reduced from 179.99.
Below is a B/W conversion to digital, I was parked in London for a tour in 1982
& a colour slide conversion as an example originally taken in 1969 so quite pleased with the quality

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If you have a lot of slides and negatives and want some thing fast that produces professional quality then look at the Nikon range.

I use a Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 ED

Review here
http://www.filmscanner.info/en/NikonSuperCoolscan5000ED.html

A bit pricey, Nikon stopped production a while back but still a few new ones around, but better value second hand around half new price:

http://www.scandig.com/filmscanner/nikon/n...rfast.html

It produces very high quality professional standard files around 35 to 40 MB, it has good software support and great scratch and dust removal options. I have done 3000 slides using the 50 slide loader. I am now working through negatives B&W and colour. The results are very pleasing and give the opportunity to recover pictures that when originally processed looked below par.

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I bought a VEHO just before christmas so that I could scan some of my fathers old slides to put on a DVD for him as a suprise for Christmas. The one I bought was a standalone one with e a small screen built into the device to view and a SD card reader to store them on. So easy and quick to do over 300 slides and the included software was excellent at enhancing poor quality images, a couple that were barely visible came out like proper photos. I have used a photo scanner before to scan slides / negatives and whilst they are not bad quality the VEHO device is worth every penny.

Sounds like the same kit, & yeah its brilliant for the price. I must admit well impressed with some of the poor image photo's that it corrected.
Hope you enjoyed your slides as much as we did.

We had the same prob - a couple of thousand prints / slides to convert. Decided to send them away to a studio - Revive Studios in Cardiff - very good service, free courier included etc and good value / quality. I offer this as I felt it wasn't worth the cost and time of buying a piece of kit I'd only use the once and the faff of removing slides from sleeves, putting them through one after the other etc...

well Piattj
"the cost and time of buying a piece of kit I'd only use the once and the faff of removing slides from sleeves"

I have just sold the kit on for £60.00 so I lost £9.00 & actually enjoyed going through all the slides myself. As for having to remove them all from their sleeves, Whats that all about ?
My slides were all in boxes and just loaded each one in turn into the multiple slide carrier.
So I have done over 1500 slides & it cost me £9.00