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 | Here are the results of some slide scanning I did from photos of a Tioman trip in the
early '90s. |
    
| The adapter costs me RM500, and it is small A4 size tablet that doesn't attach to the
flatbed scanner, but rather just sits on the glass surface. In fact, the adapter is just
an illuminator, shedding light onto the slides that you want to scan. |
| When I first tried it, I was shaken that the scans were quite dark and blur. I was
disappointed, and nothing I tried could improve the situation (raise the resolution of the
scan, mess around with brightness, contrast, gamma correction, etc).
 | Finally, I realised that the adapter had to be aligned very carefully over its black
transparency guide, such that a clear strip at the top of the adapter's
illuminator corresponds with the calibrator bar (a cutout) on the guide. |
| When that is done properly, scans appear reasonably bright. The outcome is almost
satisfactory, but can-lah. |
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| Well, at least you get to view my slides. Quite a lot of them are slowly deteriorating
and are covered with tiny spots of dust, which I had to clean off painstakingly before the
scans took place. I hope to preserve my slide collections digitally, thus cheating them
off a slow but sure death. |
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