35mm Slides to Digital Format

I hope this is the appropriate subforum for this topic. I have several boxes of 35mm slides that I would like to have converted to a digital format. I know that there are several labs that can do this. But can I get a recommendation on who might be able to do this at a reasonable cost?

Thank you.

I bought a basic LED light pad from Amazon, reversed the center column on my tripod so I could mount my camera pointing down, and used my macro lens. Didn't take all that long to copy about 1500 slides. I imported them into Lightroom to crop out the edges of the slide mounts and make any other needed adjustments. I did clean each slide with a lens brush before photographing it. (I got the idea from a YouTube video that I can't seem to find right now.)

Yep, that's how I would do it, just photograph them with a macro lens using a light box. Make a little jig to hold the slide above the illuminated surface so that imperfections and dirt on the light box are out of focus and don't become part of your copy. I've done a couple thousand copies this way.

You will usually get better results with a dedicated slide scanner, but not always, and the difference is usually hard to see. And scanning takes much longer. Plus, you need a scanner. I already have the scanner (Nikon Coolpix) but still go the copy route because it is much faster. I redo selected slides in the scanner as needed.

I built my slide copy setup with a Nikkor macro rail and slide duplicator along with a 55 macro lens and lens adapter, using strobe for illumination. I found the equipment at KEH. Whichever approach you choose pay special attention to cleaning the slides before reproduction. Quality of output will vary between vendors. Some may need to remove the film from holders before scanning, so ask questions and order tests if you have a large quantity to copy.

i have my own scanner and have never used a lab for this service but if you follow "Top 10s" and haven't come across this...take a read...

https://www.toptenrevi​ews.com/best-photo-scanning-services

There are many home brew options assuming that you have a macro capable lens. I basically put together a Optek tube with slide attachment. It's threaded and screws into my 100mm macro. Load it up with a slide and point it at the sun. Best light source you can get.

Here's the video that got me started. He's digitizing film negatives, but the concept is the same. I put my slides directly on the light pad. I'm using a mirrorless camera so I raised the camera's back screen and manually positioned each slide and made sure to include just a tiny bit of the slide mount on all four sides (to be cropped out later). Many other good and interesting suggestions in this thread!

https://youtu.be/6pnqF​8G_wiM

Lots of other videos on this subject are available.