Some months ago I asked a question about how best to transfer slides to digital images. All is good with that, and the slow scanning transfer continues. Probably for several years as time allows.
However, I was asked the other day how to do this the other way, transfer a digital image to a 35mm slide. As I still live in the 1970s and shoot film and have slide shows etc, that rather appealed to me to have a go myself. A look on-line showed there were companies out there who would do this, but I want to be able to have a try at this from home without the need for further expense in equipment. Obviously, companies aren't exactly up front on how they achieve this, but I presume they are sent the images by e-mail, convert them to a certain standard pixel image size, and have some way of mounting a film camera to view the image in sort of dark room conditions to exclude other light sources? If it were a picture or a document, it would be more straight forward to use a duplicating stand with appropriate lighting. The only thing that came to mind was taking a picture of the image on a computer screen in a darkened room (image displayed at a size which would result in a full frame capture, camera tripod mounted), but I want to ensure that a quality image remains a quality image when transferred to film and projected (no pixels!). Those companies doing this commercially are displaying the digital image on something from which they take a film image; I just suspect that their 'something' is considerably better than I have available at home. I have tried doing the above with a digital camera+tripod/computer screen, just to see how it comes out, and some results have been OK. I'm not aiming for OK, I'm aiming for good as a minimum, and it must be repeatable time after time. Anyone tried this or is it just me....? I thought this was also a different, although backwards technologically, method of keeping certain images stored. Malcolm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
