NYC W. 48th St. circa 1984. Looking out my apartment window.

[Walleye]

I’m trying to get a good system for digitally copying my old Kodachromes so this is a start.

[niyad]

1. How cool is that??? Thank you!!!

[Diamond_Dog]

2. I love old photographs!

Very cool! Did you like living there?

[Walleye]

3. Yes, I did. I liked living there. I left to get a job for a newspaper. It's tough to live there.

[Traurigkeit]

4. A time capsule of a different/missed environment

[Scruffy1]

5. Years ago i built a mall light box for my copy stand.

It's simple. you just need a light, something to difuse the light like a piece of plastic or even a non see through plastic bag. My locating device is two strips of wood glued in place (popsicle sticks are fine). The hole in the box should be a little larger then the exposed film portion. Two hundred slides an hour no problem. Scanning would take forever.

[Walleye]

6. Thanks for the suggestion. I am trying to develop a system.

[Bundbuster]

7. How are you digitally copying now?

I've been thinking of getting this Kodak Digital Film Scanner, but am not sure about the quality I'd get from 50 year old slides.

[Walleye]

8. I'm still working on a good system, but basically it involves a backlight on the slides and a macro lens on my digital

Camera, with a paper towel tube cut to the length of the focus. It’s not perfect, but the quality isn’t bad. The Kodachrome hold up very well but the Ektachromes and probably any Kodacolor might suffer some fading, but these have been in their boxes in a closet for a while.