Possible to get slides made from digital images? Where?

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I have been playing around with a Canon A5 Zoom, and am ready to trade it in for a higher resolution camera that can do good quality copystand work. I need to be able to produce these images both as conventional slide-projector slides and on paper. Is this possible? What sort of business can produce slides for me? Or what sort of printer should I buy? Thanks. (Finally -- will a 1600 x 1200 resolution camera with macros setting be able to photograph 12 or 14 point type without noticeable blurring?) In case you're wondering, I need to do slide-assisted talks on history of printing and graphic arts.

-- M Hagood (mhagood@erols.com), September 06, 1999

Answers

1) Slides are definitely possible, but the pixels will be much more visible on the high-res slides than onscreen. Still, a 2 megapixel camera should look pretty good.

2) Various service bureaus do this work. A local one that does a bit mail-order business is www.imagers.com.

3) As to resolving print, depends on how many letters you want to cram into the frame. For ultimate microscopic detail, the Nikon 950 can't be beat. Other cameras will come close with auxiliary lenses (in case you for some reason like their other features better, like the Oly C2000's fine-grained aperture control). For really close macro work, the CP950 is the king though. (Check the macro test shot in the Nikon review on this site.)

-- Dave Etchells (web@imaging-resource.com), September 12, 1999.


http://signaturecolor.com will make slides from digital image. They are located in Texas.

-- Stephen Kovac Jr (skovac@qualcomm.com), December 11, 1999.

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