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The Velveteen Ocelot

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1. You'll have better luck with a scanner specifically designed
Mon May 21, 2018, 07:24 PM
May 2018

for scanning 35mm slides, because a regular flatbed scanner won't light them enough. Here is an article that explains how to set up a flatbed scanner for slides. https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/easiest-inexpensive-scan-slides-flatbed-scanner/

Or you could buy a slide scanner. My dad, in his '90s, decided he wanted to scan all of his thousands of 35mm slides he'd taken since the '50s, so he bought a slide scanner and set to work. It was his big project until he became too ill to work on it, but he got a lot of them done before he passed away. If a 90-year-old guy with limited computer skills can manage a slide scanner, it has to be a pretty easy process.

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