Slides/transparencies

Supatramp

Does anyone have a relatively cheap method of digitising  2¼" square slides?  There are plenty of 35mm slide copiers, but not 2¼" square.

TIA

Neil_Jones

Most of these are 35mm film in a surround.  Its the frame size/surround that makes them just over 2".

Easiest solution for these is a flatbed scanner, but they need to be backlit - your cheap and cheerful scanner on an all-in-one printer probably won't do it. However this hack might be worth a shot:

https://www.popphoto.com/gear/2011/07/how-to-scan-negatives-using-standard-scanners/

Otherwise you'll have to either backlight it yourself (up against a bright window with a white backround - white cloud will do it, or anything with a bright white background) and take a photo of that on a decent digital camera), or beg/borrow/steal/buy a flatbed scanner hat can provide the backlight you need.

binao

Try a LIDL Silver Crest negative digitiser. 

It comes with a 21/4" square magazine on a slide feeder that feeds the slides into the digitiser. About £30. Not perfect results but ok.
Email lidl or try ebay etc or wait for back in store on the bizarre section. Beware the "grab and run" peeps.

cymruchris

Do you still have a projector and screen? I just scanned a couple of decades of 35mm and had about 100 127 slides that the scanner wouldn't deal with - so I projected them up onto the screen in the dark of night, and re-photographed them using a DSLR. The results were reasonable - and certainly better to have the memory than not. I couldn't find a cheap way of scanning large slides. A friend told me there is a service that does it - but it's not cheap. I can find out who it is if it's useful - but my friend did say it cost quite a bit.

Chino

Perhaps enquire at your local Snappy Snaps:
https://www.snappysnaps.co.uk/photo-services/photo-scanning.html

bob_a_builder

Depends on how many you need to do 
But plenty of home build methods using mobile phone / digital  camera on youtube 
Just a couple
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2iC76S10Jo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bN-NRk4uYA

chrisbur

Neil_Jones said:

Most of these are 35mm film in a surround.  Its the frame size/surround that makes them just over 2".

Easiest solution for these is a flatbed scanner, but they need to be backlit - your cheap and cheerful scanner on an all-in-one printer probably won't do it. However this hack might be worth a shot:

https://www.popphoto.com/gear/2011/07/how-to-scan-negatives-using-standard-scanners/

Otherwise you'll have to either backlight it yourself (up against a bright window with a white backround - white cloud will do it, or anything with a bright white background) and take a photo of that on a decent digital camera), or beg/borrow/steal/buy a flatbed scanner hat can provide the backlight you need.

The actual size of a 35mm slide in its frame is 50mm  which is a shade under 2 inches.  I think it's more likely the OP is referring to medium format film, 120 or 620.  Both the same size just double the length for 620.  The actual size of the film varied a bit as did the frame size depending on the camera but was usually referred to as 6 by 6 for centimetres or two and a quarter for inches.  There were other formats other than square 6 cm by 4.5 cm was a popular one.

If it is medium format scans required probably the best option would be a flat bed scanner that will also scan slides and negs for example....
https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing-accessories/printers-scanners-and-ink/scanners/epson-v370-perfection-flatbed-scanner-20023039-pdt.html
There are dearer models which will give better results I would assume but I have never scanned medium format so cannot say if the extra cost would be worth it.   
If you have a limited number to scan and no further use for it you could sell it when you are finished to reduce costs, or even look at second hand to start with.

Supatramp

Thanks for your help. Although 35mm was the common size, 2¼“ square was a common size possibly before  35mm, and was the standard size for Rolleiflex's and Rolleicord's, of which I have one. I think there was also Minolta's, it was the professional standard size.

cymruchris

Is it these you've got?

I found the detail from a friend about the scanning service - have a look here for a few more details (and prices) to see if that fits in with the quantities you have.

https://www.filmscanuk.co.uk/Prices.php