For scanning slides, I use a Canoscan (Canon) 9000f MkII. It's been my workhorse for some time now. The program that comes with it is relatively simple to work with. My uncle has a Wolverine that I borrowed to try something different for the filmstrips & that did worse than the Canon. Then I went with a Optex telecine. I project through that with a Kodak Ektagraphic III A slide projector that has a filmstrip adapter in place of the usual projection lens. On the other side of things is my Kodak S-1 Micro 4/3 camera with M42 adapter & a Zeiss 50mm f2.8 Tessar Vorwahlspringblende lens in Exakta mount. I used that camera setup for my first two filmstrips. The image was unsharp so I switched out the lens to my Zeiss Ultron 50mm f1.4. That's one of my razor sharp lenses. No difference. Finally I tore the telecine apart to give it a good cleaning. Turns out the matte glass & viewer lens are plastic. The matte glass also has two either small indentations or air bubbles in it that were driving me up a wall! Soooo.... I had to find something else. A standard projection screen wasn't going to cut it. Even a new one isn't very flat. Dug around & found a rear projection Technicolor tabletop viewing screen. Been using that since. My lens was changed up again to a Zeiss Skoparex 35mm f3.4 so the camera isn't a mile away from the screen. Been using that setup since. All the pictures that come out of the camera are unadulterated. The camera itself puts out a good clean image & the lens itself is known for excellent image fidelity. If you have a digital camera with an interchangeable lens system, I would recommend going with a slide copying setup with a macro lens. If you don't, you may want to look into the same scanner that I use. You can usually find a nice used one for cheap on eBay. An Epson V600 would be another good one & about $230 new. Both options would be great & you could crank out 4 slides @ 9600dpi in just a couple minutes. Going with 4800dpi would be faster if you don't need the sharpness. You also have to remember, most slides are not razor sharp. So the highest resolution may not be necessary. That's not to say either option will make scanning more fun, but it will make your work load a lot easier to work with. Any other questions, please feel free to ask.
As for hobbies.... I got too many of them. Lol! My usual winter hobby is model railroading. I'm taking a break from that this winter to save money. That will get directed into the farm equipment come spring. My other big hobby is film photography which includes the study of as well as developing, enlarging & collecting equipment. The collecting part kind of died off over the last couple years due to the prices of gear beginning to skyrocket. Figured my hobby was secure as a quiet, inexpensive past time that nobody else was into. So much for that. At least it kept fresh film on the market, Fuji from dumping their film line completely, new film getting created as well as the occasional new camera. Currently looking into a new 8x10, now that there's Ektachrome being offered in sheets again. Ilford & Adox are offering a good B&W selection to compliment Kodak & their Tri-X.
Glad you enjoy my copy work. There will be more to come. If my local, former IH dealer can find his old filmstrips, there will be a lot more.
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