Expert: James - 1/9/2006

Question
I have some old slides that I want to convert to digital.  I read an article where they suggested taking a picture of the slides with a digital camera.

However I am having trouble getting the camera to focus at such a close range.  Just wondering if you have any ideas?

Answer
I'm not that familar with that kind of thing, but I believe you can use a typical scanner and scan them. There should be an option for scanning negatives and/or transparencies. And scanners I believe can record images in greater detail than a free-moving digital camera. Namely make small images much larger. I hope that helps you somewhat.