How do you think we washed all the developer/stop bath/fixer off the film once we were done developing it? We used WATER!!! And not fancy distilled water, just regular tap water. So first to correct some erroneous information in a previous review: You CAN wash old film and slides in water. I've personally hand-developed thousands of rolls of transparency (slide) film. I still have (but don't use anymore) an actual photographic darkroom. One of my degrees is in Fine Arts with a concentration in dark room photography.
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Meaning: I was in a professional publishing environment.
I would use the digitized images in textbooks, dictionaries and online resources/databases we published and charged universities and public libraries for. As I recall the slide feeder could hold about 40 mounted slides and took about 8 minutes per slide to scan. Every day for a decade, 8 hours a day I used PhotoShop 3.0+, flatbed scanners, image setters and even a Nikon Coolscan slide scanner with an automatic slide-feeder. I was a digital imaging specialist for 10 years at Thomson Learning/Gale Research. Less than 2 weeks worth of work!īackground: BFA in Art with concentration in Darkroom Photography Own my own darkroom for 25 years Decade as an Imaging Specialist/Scanner Operator (you can skip the next few paragraphs and get to the settings which worked well for us while scanning a bunch of old slides). Much cheaper than paying a service to do it. Not bad and we still have a great scanner. We also sprang for an external hard drive and docking station for a super backup. Super huge 5,400 slide project DONE for $199 + blank DVDs and a blank usb thumbdrive for backup. We would look at each set of 4 preview images and click and highlight the ones we wanted to color restore (click on the slide, do NOT click on the checkbox.leave the checkbox on each preview CHECKED ON.that's what lets the scanner know you want to scan all 4 slides that you just previewed).
That was with only selective use of Color Restoration, which doesn't add anytime to the scan. 11th Day Update: all 5400 slide transparencies (35mm mounted slides) have been scanned (at 2400dpi) and burned to DVDs.