35mm slides and 8mm film digitization

I decided to convert my wife's grandfather film about 3 years ago.
First thing I bought was some film restorer cleaner.
Basically pour some on a rag and wind the film between 2 fingers to coat the film.
I wasn't impressed with the wolverine machines and bought a converted projector with a led light and faced a camcorder through the lens to focus on the film gate and then pressed record.
Was a little tricky especially with exposure manually while recording,which means i needed a remote.
Wanted to use my sony ex1 or Panasonic but they have rolling shutter that produced light black banding.
Was able to find a ccd camcorder while not as good,did a job I was happy with and not dumping too much money into it.

This video from 1965 I cleaned up a little in post .
I kept my master copy that I recorded and I will one day restore further, along with the rest of the collection.



For slides and camera film we bought an old epson perfection v500 scanner with film and slide holders.


It was fun to see all the old history no one remember watching and seeing everyone's reaction.
Just wish I knew about this film before he died.

Good luck

How many slides are we talking? Plustek makes decent scanners, but at-home scanning is very time consuming. Doubly so if you get into color editing and whatnot.

I scan all of my own 35mm film, and I've also scanned hundred, maybe thousands of slides at home too. I use my mirrorless camera, macro lens, and special piece of equipment with a built in light. It's a process, and it's luckily one I love doing, but I could see how it would be very annoying for someone not super into photography.

Instead of mailing it off, most cities have local labs that will scan old slides. Not sure about the 8mm, but I'd imagine so.

It’s about 1000 or so slides and 8 or so rolls of film.

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How many slides are we talking? Plustek makes decent scanners, but at-home scanning is very time consuming. Doubly so if you get into color editing and whatnot.

I scan all of my own 35mm film, and I've also scanned hundred, maybe thousands of slides at home too. I use my mirrorless camera, macro lens, and special piece of equipment with a built in light. It's a process, and it's luckily one I love doing, but I could see how it would be very annoying for someone not super into photography.

Instead of mailing it off, most cities have local labs that will scan old slides. Not sure about the 8mm, but I'd imagine so.

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there's an older thread on here..nolagt i think?

he's done this in spades so he had a good setup and it was fast..yep around 400-500 i tihnk for the sweet spot scanner he uses and it does alot of retoucthing, material loading in bulk, etc.

i almost pulled the trigger on the system he bought but i dont know when i'd find the time to do this. maybe i'll look at doing this again..



here's the thread. NOLAGT, i'm joxy-ing you..come give us an update.

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Sent you a vid of it running. If you are just worried about digitizing pictures that you’re gonna look at on a computer or TV screen and not try to reprint them expecting them to be as perfect as the original then it is spot on. I’m going through pictures from 1950 until about 2004 when I started keeping better digital copies of my pictures so it’s perfect for me. Sometimes it will put a line across the scanned image of a piece of dust gets on the scanner lens, and it doesn’t auto rotate perfectly. The line on the picture doesn’t bother me and I will stack the pictures in the orientation that I want them scanned so I don’t have to worry about the auto rotate. I have also on the last few batches stuck them in rotated the way they need to go and even though the guide is not touching the vertical ones it still scans them straight. This project would end up costing me a couple grand to scan them professionally for 500 bucks and some of my time to do it myself. This was the best decision for my situation.

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Transmitted light 35mm scanners are much better than flatbeds that many people use. Plustek's $500-600 range is attractive. Look on eBay for new Nikon Super Coolscan. Those could have run you $5k new. I had 2 at work.

For 8mm use a service to make sure frames-per-seconds get converted correctly.