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I use Slides.com as well and have been very happy with their services. They have several ways by which you send them your images, which makes it convenient and fast.
Michael, how do you determine which one the master slide is and how do you get duplicates made?
I have been resending the original file and paying the initial set up fee when ordering more slides of the same image.
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Enzie:
I queried them on this and basically what it amounts to is that all of the slides we get back from them are originals.
The master/duplicate process came from a time when there were two processes and then two machines that did the work. These days, they can spit out original quality slides at four times the rate out of a single machine.
These days, you are really paying for setup as opposed to a "master slide".
This is great - just the information I needed. Thanks! Wish I had stumbled across this thread earlier. I have two cameras (a Canon FTQL and a Canon FTb) that I have been using for some 30 years (I'm sure must be antiques by now) for capturing slides. If I had known it was that easy to send off tiff files to this company for quick turnaround, that would have saved a lot of time and expense. I will certainly use the slides.com resource in the future. Plus, it's becoming more and more of a challenge finding and having slide film developed as my local camera store recently informed me that they are no longer processing slide film.
On another note, I bought a 2.1 megapixel camera 3 years ago and technology is advancing so fast, it's already time to upgrade to a higher resolution camera - a problem never encountered with my old manual cameras that I'm sure will be taking good pictures for another 30 years.
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