<p>I now have possession of my family’s 50 year old slides taken at the New York World’s Fair. Such a treasure! </p>
<p>I want to have prints made of several of the slides, but am worried because they are obviously irreplaceable. Do you think it would be worthwhile to use a camera shop or find somewhere that wouldn’t “send them off”? Or is the process so easy/risk free that I am concerned about nothing and could take them in to CVS or Walgreens?</p>
<p>If you don’t want to risk trusting the slides to someone at a camera store or drugstore photo center, you could buy a slide converter pretty cheaply and upload the images to your computer. I did that a few years ago, then cleaned up and cropped some of the pictures using a cheap photo editing program before having them printed. For me, it was worth the cost of the slide copier to be able to make some minor adjustments before printing. You could purchase one for about $100 - $150.</p>
<p>I did about a 1000 slides of family photos. I happened to have the right camera with lenses to do it. I bought camera attachments to accomplish the task. It was a “take a picture of the slide” process. Took some research to figure it out. I went that route because I had so many slides–pretty much our family history and it would have been cost prohibitive/too time-consuming to do it any other way. I would take them to a camera shop if I only had a few. Or look into a high end scanner that does slides.
If scanner route you can then send the results off to whomever you like. But can be very time consuming depending on the number of slides you want to process.
I would ask if the “local camera shop” ships things off. I couldn’t risk the postal service losing the slides–they were in no way replaceable and way too valuable to me and my family.</p>
<p>Side note–I was at the NY Worlds Fair too! And those are part of the slides!</p>
<p>Hmm … great timing for this question. How much does it cost at a camera shop?</p>
<p>I did a BUNCH at COSTCO. yes, slides were irreplaceable, but so was film, back in the day, and we sent it off all the time. COSTCO was 29¢ a slide after some initial investment. Got a DVD back (and the slides), it was great and worth it.</p>
<p>I am in the process (VERY SLOWLY) of making prints from old 2x3 negatives. Photoship will change the negative to positive (all black and white). I couldn’t find a shop anywhere that would handle those.</p>
<p>I really just have about 5 that I want to make prints of at the moment. At some point I will take custody of my late father’s entire collection of slides, but that will be a project for a later time.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info about the slides.</p>