AboutSteve Meltzer Expertise I am a professional photographer and I've been shooting for newspapers, magazines, commercial clients and artists for over 30 years.
I have shot stock photography for dozens of years and in 1977 created West Stock (Seattle, WA) which was one of the first to produce stock photo CDs and later one of the first to establish an online stock photo slaes site.
I have a new book on digital photography "PHOTOGRAPHING ARTS, CRAFTS AND COLLECTIBLES (Lark Books, 2007)which is available at Amazon.com, eBay.com and in bookstores like Barnes & Noble and Borders. I have another book, CAPTURE THE LIGHT which will be puiblished in November, 2008.
I write 20-30 feature articles and columns for regional and national publications a year.
My education includes studying with photographers like Cornell Capa, Duane Michels and Oliver Gagliani (from the Ansel Adams Center.)
Expert: Steve Meltzer Date: 1/7/2007 Subject: slides to digital
Question I have about 900 slides I would like to convert to digital.
Too expensive to have it done by Kodak. Is there any other way I can do it?
I appreciate your answer.
Jo
Answer Jo
This is a big job and it will cost you either in time or money. Kodak and local photo labs will charge you anywhere from $2 to $5 per image to scan and load on a CD. So that's really expenisve.
You could buy a flatbed scanner with slide scanning ability- for around $100- and do the scanning yourself. The cost beyond the scanner will be minimal (cost of CDs or DVDs) but you better plan on spending weeks on this project.
Or if you have a digital Single Lens Reflex camera you might be able to find a generic slide duplicator device for that camera. The dupilcator will cost about $100-200. You put a slide in and photograph it with the camea. Then you load the image to disc.
