Inexpensive way to make prints from slides

[SLDL]

I have just come across hundreds of photos only on slides from my childhood. Some of these pictures are family trips to Disney World in the early 80's & I would really love to get them copied for my kids to see and to keep for myself as well. Does anyone know of an affordable place that does this?

 

[Costumesaremylife]

I read once where someone projected their slides onto a piece of white board and took a picture with their digital camera. It may have been someone on the photo boards here. Then they just had had the photos printed

 

[TheRatPack]

Sams does it (maybe Walmart too?) Or you can buy an Epson scanner (can't recall the name right now and mine isn't sitting here) and it has a scanner insert that scans I think 4 or 5 slides at a time to your computer and then you can print them yourself. I opted to buy the scanner since I have over 1000 slides to print but then when I've tried to save the photo's to disc it takes up a LOT of disc space.....I'll have to figure out how to reduce that before doing anymore or just take them to Sams/Walmart. Oh and some of the higher end camera shops (Wolf...etc) will do them too, but they are #1 very very expensive and #2 the quality was awful.

 

[pyrxtc]

If you take them wiht you to a camera shop, most of them can print from slides easily. Places like Walmart and target won't but a real camera shop should.

 

[5 Disney Fans]

I had mine done at Wal-Mart around 10 years ago. It cost about $.12 a print back then. They did a great job!!

 

[seashoreCM]

If you use a scanner, you can choose what resolution you want the slides scanned at. If you want detail comparable to what the slides had to begin with or enough for 8x10 prints (2500x2000 pixels or so), then the files will be quite large. If you want detail comparable to what a computer monitor or a digital picture frame can show (1000x700 or so), the files will be quite small. If you want quality for 4x6 prints (1800x1200 or so), the file sizes will be "medium".

Digital camera hints: http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/digicam.htm

 

[heathrow42]

Just saw this at costco the other day.. The costco photo center has a service to transfer slides to DVD. It was something like $19.99 for the first 50 slides and .25 cents for each slide after that? Then you could just take the DVD and have any photos you want printed at any time, and they would be digital, so you could make back ups etc. Might be worth looking into if you don't have a lot of slides or the inclination to get a scanner and do it yourself. They will also transfer vhs, mini-dv, and old camcorder type tapes onto dvd. I think that was $16.99.

--Heather

 

[Cinders]

This is great timing. About 2 weeks ago in a Bed, Bath and Beyond ad they had a lil machine that would let you transfer your slides and negatives.

Found the link http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?order_num=-1&SKU=15800313

Anyone have one of these and is it worth it? My dad has quite a few slides from our big vacations when I was little and a co-worker has quite a few he's used for presentations. For the pics Dad has we'd want 2 sets at least on some of them. I wondered if it is worth the price or if a photo service would be cheaper or how many tranfers it would take to break even.

 

[bdcp]

A few years ago we purchased a small printer made specifically to print photos and it takes slides. It works great. My parents had several thousands of slides from the 60's-late 70's. I can't remember who made it, but it came from Costco and wasn't that outrageously expensive.

 

[Kate and Pete]

This is great timing. About 2 weeks ago in a Bed, Bath and Beyond ad they had a lil machine that would let you transfer your slides and negatives.

Found the link http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?order_num=-1&SKU=15800313

Anyone have one of these and is it worth it? My dad has quite a few slides from our big vacations when I was little and a co-worker has quite a few he's used for presentations. For the pics Dad has we'd want 2 sets at least on some of them. I wondered if it is worth the price or if a photo service would be cheaper or how many tranfers it would take to break even.

This looks interesting...I'm curious if anyone has one, too! I have hundreds of pics. on negatives that I'd love to get on a DVD....

 

[heartbeeps]

here's the URL I meant to add -
http://www.scancafe.com/

 

[safetymom]

Save your money with that gadget from BBB. I would buy a regular photo scanner for that price and be able to use it for much more than just scanning slides.

 

[jennz]

My parents wedding pictures are on slides and I want to print them. I checked the Sam's and Costco sites and didn't see info on there - do you have to go in the store for it?

Thanks!

 

[MichelleinMaine]

I read once where someone projected their slides onto a piece of white board and took a picture with their digital camera. It may have been someone on the photo boards here. Then they just had had the photos printed

I did this. I had about 15 trays of slides from my grandfather. I have a scanner attachment for slides, but it took FOREVER to do. I finally just projected each one on a blank wall. Set my camera on a tripod. It was super easy/quick to advance the slide, snap a pic, advance the slide, take a pic... They came out much better than the scanner too, even at the highest setting. If you don't have a slide projector, you can usually borrow one from a school, library, church...

The slides had unfortunately not been kept in the best environment and had deteriorated some. But the pictures are still priceless! Because I had the digital file, not just the prints, I made a slideshow up of them. I put that, plus all the individual pictures on a CD for all my family members. (Cheap Christmas present, lol)

Here's one that I did- look familiar? (December 1971)