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35 mm slides
for quite a while I have been trying to find some 35 mm slides I took when I was stationed in Germany. well I finally found them and why I chose to put them in a box with bier steins is a question I can't answer. I found my slide viewer there is a reason why you don't leave batteries in things for the long term. the batteries and leaked and corroded the contacts. so I looked in several different stores this morning and all I got was a bunch of blank stares on what the viewer and 35 mm slides were. my mother has always wanted to look at them but I need to go through them first to make sure they are viewable by a mother.
is there a spray that will clean the corroded contacts and not hurt the plastic case?
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Plain vinegar will work to help remove the acid, then some judicial use of fine sand paper will remove the tarnish and clean up the contacts for a good connection.
Or, for around $100, you can buy a slide scanner and scan them into your computer.
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You can try a fiber glass pen for cleaning corroded contacts. A brass/bronze brush will also work, as does 0000 steel wool. I avoid using any chemicals. Try this company:
https://www.eraser.com/fybrglass-brushes-and-erasers/
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Lots of 35mm slide viewers available on eBay.
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Nearest garage sale will probably get you a viewer cheap. I see them all the time. If they really mean something to you, you should scan them into digital files. You can also clean up age fading and correct the color balance so they will look like they were taken yesterday.
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I'd get me something like this..
save everything on the computor
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A mix of baking soda and water will neutralize the acidic remnants, and a pencil eraser or small piece of sandpaper will clean the contacts.
Remember that water and electricity don't mix, so be judicious with application. A q-tip works well.
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Wow I'm going to tell a friend of mine about that, he has shoe box's full of slides.
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Plain vinegar will work to help remove the acid, then some judicial use of fine sand paper will remove the tarnish and clean up the contacts for a good connection.
Or, for around $100, you can buy a slide scanner and scan them into your computer.
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If your slides are of reasonable quality, I suggest you send them out to a professional service to be scanned into photo files. The cheap slide scanners are a joke. There are only a few now available that produce acceptable scans and they cost around 500$. I used a 700$ Diconix years ago to scan slides and got very good results, but this scanner is no longer available. Some document scanners also provide the capability of scanning slides but the results are most unsatisfactory.
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I have a similar collection of slides from college, the Army (Korea, Japan and Ft. Knox) and Chiraq. I just bit the bullet and bought a decent Canon flatbed scanner with a slide scanning fixture.
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You are in the same shape that I am in with old 8mm movie film reels...............
Good luck.
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If your slides are of reasonable quality, I suggest you send them out to a professional service to be scanned into photo files. The cheap slide scanners are a joke. There are only a few now available that produce acceptable scans and they cost around 500$. I used a 700$ Diconix years ago to scan slides and got very good results, but this scanner is no longer available. Some document scanners also provide the capability of scanning slides but the results are most unsatisfactory.
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I have a devoted slide/negative scanner which I bought maybe 10 years ago, and for a LOT less than $500. As I remember it was less than $100, and it does (did) excellent fairly high resolution scans on both 35mm slides and color negatives. Not professional level, but very good. I haven't used it in years. Many conventional 8x10 flat plate scanners also had the capability to scan slides and negatives. I have one like that, but the backlight quit working some time ago, so it won't do slides and negatives. I'd bet there are lots and lots of suitable scanners listed on eBay cheap.
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A couple of years ago I got a color slide of a portrait of my mother from 1947. It was sent by the daughter of our small town photographer who apparently kept everything.
I took it to a specialty photo shop and they made prints from the slide. I think it cost about $6 for each 5x7 print.
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I bought a scanner capable of scanning slides and negatives a few years back to digitize old family photos. The undertaking proved to be immensely time consuming. I never did finish the job. Probably never will. If you want your slides digitized send them out. Whatever they charge will be worth it.
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My 35mm scanner was $79 and it worked fine. Also works for 35mm negatives.
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I bought a scanner the allowed me to scan over a thousand slides into my computer. It took a bunch of time but i was worth it.
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The biggest job for my scanner involved an elderly next-door neighbor (now deceased) who had several hundred 35mm slides which he had taken when he was in the Air Force during the Korean War. I hooked my scanner up to his computer, showed him how to use it, and let him go. I don't know how long it took him to scan them all, but he had plenty of time to do it. He was delighted with the results.
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I think for now I'm going to try cleaning the contacts or just getting another viewer. if I decide to go into it any deeper then I will get something to hook up to the computer. thanks
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Nowadays i'd get..
Nowadays I'd send the slides to get them scanned digitally rather than fool with old obsolete equipment that people haven't seen in 30 years. Just recently I threw away my old movie screen.
If you want to view the slides first, yeah, get a viewer. I think I would rather buy a viewer than works with my computer.
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I digitize my own slides and negatives. I used a Nikon scanner and Photoshop/Lightroom. Here is a recent one:
My next project is a my family's 1956 trip to Italy...all on Kodachrome.
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I threw several hundred slides away to prevent my descendants from having to spend boring hours looking at them.
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"My next project is a my family's 1956 trip to Italy...all on Kodachrome. "
The great thing about Kodachrome transparencies is that the images generally do not degrade with age, as is the case with other films. Of course, Kodachrome has been obsolete for many years, and I am not sure that there is any color transparency film still generally available to the public, although I suppose it still may be used to some extent by Hollywood and some professionals.
This has been over ten years ago, but I once needed color prints of several dozen slides. I simply projected the slides on a screen in a dark room and took still pictures of the screen using a 35mm SLR with color negative film and had them printed. Quality was not great, but a lot better than I expected.
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My Dad used to take lots of slides. Some of the old Kodak films from the 50s and 60s will degrade. I have quite a few that are just transparent now, while others may be as brilliant as when they were taken. So don't wait, get those on your computer.
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Kodachrome chemistry is very complex and is completely unlike that of any other film, and that makes processed images very stable. Images taken on E-6 color transparency films like Ektachrome, Fujichrome, etc. do fade over time, especially if improperly stored, and there is no easy way to rescue them. I have some 8mm movies on Kodachrome from the 1940s and 1950s which are still pretty good. Back in the day, processing exposed Kodachrome was so difficult that only Eastman Kodak and a few professional custom labs were able to do it.
I worked in a camera shop back in the 1950s and early 1960s, and any Kodachrome slides and movies we had come in for developing had to be sent to an Eastman Kodak processing plant in Findlay, Ohio (there were other Kodak lab locations also). I had to get the day's film packaged and sent to Kodak every night after the shop closed.
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Fujichrome is still pretty easy to find.
Developing is not very easy any more
Costco No Longer Developing 35mm Film
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Velvia was my go-to slide film for landscapes since its debut. Great stuff.
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I can't even imagine why anyone would take color slides now, they're just a bother to fool with. No one wants to set up a screen and projector (talk about a jam-a-matic!) to look at pics, in a dark room.
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