Copying old 35 mm slides.
Suggestions please for copying 35mm and 2 1/4 sq, Kodachrome and Ektachrome slides to the computer for eventual DVD for posterity ?
Three years ago I bought a gadget from Brookstones in the USA, called an iConvert, and installed the enclosed ArcSoft PhotoImpression 6 software and it worked OK, then I packed it up and brought it home and am once again attacking what is going to be a mammoth task ! ( doesn't time fly when you're having fun !! ) Basically the gadget is just a light box through which you pass a strip of up to 3 35mm slides at a time, that plugs into a USB socket and sends them to the ArcSoft editing software. I don't seem to have the ability to use other photo editing programmes, such as Picasa for instance, but in fact I really only want to copy 'as is' and save to a digital medium.
Unfortunately, although the software disc has downloaded to this present computer - not the one I first tested it on - and I can copy slides, when I open them to maybe edit and save, it increases the Brightness and Contrast in two quick steps from the original to produce a picture which is totally unacceptable , i.e. hard and washed out, e.g. faces are just two white saucers with black dots for eyes !
The ArcSoft editing programme then allows the Brightness and Contrast values to be increased, not decreased back to the original.
What systems, methods, do others use ?