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Anonymous asked in Arts & HumanitiesVisual ArtsPhotography · 1 decade ago

Which companies still turns photos into slides?

Update:

WOW! I can tell there is not very smart people here...

ACTUAL SLIDES!! Projection Slides! They go into a projector!

I am not looking to share my photos on some teenage bloging site..thank you!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    You need to bring your slide film to a high end photo shop.

    Most towns have them.

    Look in your local phone book, yellow pages

  • Ben H
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Wow, this question has attracted a lot of responses.

    Your original question can be interpreted in several ways, so I'll try and answer it in a couple of different ways.

    The first option is that you're going on a trip, or something of that sort, and want to put together a slide show when you return.

    Fortunately, that's the easiest option. To do this, you need to take the photographs on slide film, which is still made and is better than it ever was. There are a number of different slide films available from Kodak and Fuji. For a good, basic, general purpose film, I'd suggest Kodak Elite Chrome 100, or Fuji Sensia 100. These are both "consumer" films, but are still quite good. If you can't find either of these, I would suggest either Kodak E100GX or Fuji Astia 100F. These should be available from any local camera store which caters to professionals. Alternatively, you can order them online from B&H Photo.

    Once you've shot the film, processing is probably best done at a local pro lab(look in your yellow pages for "photo finishing-custom). These are few and far between these days, though. If you don't have one, drop the film in the send-off box of any grocery store, drug store, etc. The cheapest, and best(in my opinion) is Walmart. Slide film goes to one of the top labs in the country, Dwayne's Photo, at a cost of $4.88 a roll.

    The other option is that you have prints or negatives which you want to have transferred to slides.

    There are two ways of going about this. The traditional way is using a 35mm camera to photograph the negative or print. This is done by using a copy stand for prints, or using special holder, lens, and bellows for film. There are labs which will do this for you. Turning negatives into slides, however, requires a special type of film which Kodak has not made in a few years(I have a few rolls squirreled away, but I'm not parting with them any time soon).

    The better option is using a something called a film recorder, which uses LASERs to expose film from a digital file. Using a film recorder, the negative or print is first scanned, then, optionally, edited, and finally put back on slide film. This same thing can also be done using an original digital file.

    In any case, Dwayne's Photo, sourced via Walmart, can handle all of these.

  • 4 years ago

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  • 4 years ago

    Photos From Slides

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Im going to start my answer off with a questions. Why is this still unanswered? I don't think that the people answering your question are as unintelligent as the person asking it, this has been answered and more than enough additional information has been given. The simple answer would be that there never was, and never will be a company that will turn a "photo" into a slide. If your looking to have slides of something than what you must first do is buy slide film also known as transparency film, Fuji and Kodak both manufacture it. Then get it developed it is an different process for developing than print or negative film. (but if you get it cross pro.....never mind) That is how you achieve a slide, which im assuming was the intentional question.

    Question officially answered..!!

    Source(s): www.bhphotovideo.com www.samys.com
  • 4 years ago

    Slides Into Photos

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Weird Question? Normally if you are using slides you use slide film because then you get better image quality because slides are first generation whereas photos are second generation, and slides from negatives are second, etc.

    You could also just get a digital "slide" projector. These are very common now and sometimes not to expensive. Or you can just buy a DVD player that plays photodisks and use your TV.

    Now I suppose you are starting with normal film or even digital images? You are probably looking for a small store not a chain, so what I have here won't help you there. I had a heck of a time when I forced (shot film at the wrong speed on purpose because I couldn't get the right film -stupid world) some film to find someone with the equipment to know how to develop it. I just let my fingers do the walking.

    These places probably do what you are looking for:

    http://www.carlsdarkroom.com/

    http://www.jessops.com/dnp/E6Slide

    actually this is a better list: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=%22slides+from...

    Good luck

  • Kris L
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    You need to find a 'photography processing' store ... they usually also sell cameras, but if they don't they will have a processing store they work with and can give you a reference to. Yes, you CAN have your digital photos turned into slides, although most people use the 'old fashioned' analogue cameras and 'slide film' that is developed directly into slides. Go to the BEST (not always the largest with the most ads) camera store you can find and ask if they can develop slides, or have an associate that can do that ...

    Unfortunately, you may have to send your 'photos' to a different city for processing now. There were two in Seattle up to a month ago, and now both are gone and the CLOSEST place is in San Francisco. I take it you are an artist and want 'slides' for your portfolio, or you are a teacher who wants to do a 'slide show' for your class or something similar. You can do the 'slide show' on the computer these days, but you still need 'hard slides' for the portfolio in many places. Good luck.

    Source(s): My husband is a fine artist, and he also worked for the LAST company in Seattle to do 'slide developing' ... we're moving out of state soon, because the rest of his company got sold, too!
  • 1 decade ago

    not many places still do this. I know that you can easily make photo prints from slides- but to get slides from photos? As I recall, they have to essentially take a photo of your provided photo and make a slide from it. There will be some quality loss- but if you really need a slide of a photo badly.

    Perhaps you can purchase some slide film and take a photo of your photograph. I'd do it outdoors in natural sunlight, and use a tripod. Be sure to do a self-timer shutter release to avoid any unneccesary shaking of your camera.

    Simply develop your slide film at any photography place. I'm sure that if you do it this way, it'd cost much less than a lab would charge... that is if you can find a place that still does this service.

    good luck

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    For the best answers, search on this site https://shorturl.im/axsUP

    Pay a commercial company $1 or more per slide Buy an Epson Perfection V1500 Photo scanner with back lighting head and slide and negative holder (including 2 1/4 x 2 1/4) that scans up to several thousand dpi. for $150 or so, as I did.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The answerer, "Gatewayc.." gave you the best answer doing a very good job of explaining the difference between negative & color reversal film & why slide film is different than 35mm or other film.

    Kodak was still making slides about 5 years ago, but I'm not sure if they still do. You should go to their website, which several people have already supplied in their answers to you to see if its listed, or to get contact info to ask Kodak yourself. If they don't, their closest competitor was Fuji, so I'd check with them, next.

    As for all the answers referring to digital techniques & other forms of processing films - forgive them, they're young & haven't been exposed to such archaic things as super 8 or slides being projected on screens via a carousel.

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