Digital slide scanner?

[Ron Gatrelle]

In personal correspondence with Harry Pavulaan on some TILS business, he
mentioned the following. My response follows. Just before sending my email
back to him I though I would just share this over the Leps L bulletin
board. SO, the question is .... Is there an easy (and readily available)
way to scan slides to digital images?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harry Pavulaan" <harrypav at hotmail.com>
To: <gatrelle at tils-ttr.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 6:03 PM
Subject: upcoming papers


Ron:
    Snip By the way, I was just given a huge binder of butterfly slides on
loan.  How
 difficult would it be to convert slides into digital images that could be
 published
    snip
********

Harry,
The slides to digital question is one we both need an answer to. I would
think that this is now (or fast becoming) a real problem with the advent of
digital publishing. Much like the way CDs replaced records and tapes -the
material _had_ to be moved. The only way I know is the expensive and time
consuming process of converting slides to photos and then scanning the
photos (which process almost always loses quality). There needs to be a
cost effective "slide scanner" invented.
Ron




 
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