Scanning the old color slides

[patmoore]

Slowly I'm working my way through the color slides I shot in the sixties and seventies. I ran across this one my oldest daughter (she has three kids herself now). She is sitting on the wing of a DeHavilland Rapide. I was told it was built in 1928 but researching the plane indicates 1934 might be more accurate. The plane was owned by Richard Bach, the author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Richard had just taken up skydiving and let us use his plane for an air show in Florida. I did my first and only wing walking on this plane before jumping from it. Richard later presented me with US Parachute Association Diamond Wings on the occasion of my 2000th jump.



This particular slide wasn't scanned. Several years ago I set up a Kodak Carousel and displayed slides on the living room wall. I then used my first Olympus Digital camera to take 640x480 shots without flash. This was one of those efforts.

[Ian]

Re: Scanning the old color slides

That's quite a clever way of recording slides - of course you can't place the camera on the central projection axis unless you use keystone correction, but in that case the correction can be done in post-processing.

Ian

[TheBull1875]

Re: Scanning the old color slides

Very good Pat. It is actually a method that I thought about when I started scanning mine however it would appear my projector had long gone to the tip!

[patmoore]

Re: Scanning the old color slides

Ian's right. A Keystoning issue can result. In the case of the dozen or so that I "scanned" I just used the cropping tool to make a perfect rectangle without bothering to correct for the slight Keystone issue. It really didn't seem to be much of a problem.

Rather than use my slow slide scanner which requires that I remove the slides from the tray and manually scan four at a time I may haul out the projector again and try it with a better camera. Setting the camera on a tripod as close to the projector as I can may do the trick.