# Scans from slides **URL:** \ **Category:** LeiaPlayer\ **Created:** [September 5, 2024, 8:39pm UTC](https://forums.leialoft.com/t/scans-from-slides/5091 "2024-09-05T20:39:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bastion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Bastion](https://forums.leialoft.com/u/Bastion)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2024, 8:39pm UTC](https://forums.leialoft.com/t/scans-from-slides/5091/1 "2024-09-05T20:39:51Z")
My grandfather gave me a 3D camera when I was 14. That was 50 years ago. It used to take me a couple of weekends to develop the film in a darkroom and mount my pairs of slides in cards. I am scanning them and viewing on my LP2. They have never looked so good or been so accessible! I am also scanning in Victorian 3D cards I found at auction. Again, the results are wonderful! ---
**Author:** ![cyberpnk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.leialoft.com/cyberpnk/32/1863_2.png) [@cyberpnk](https://forums.leialoft.com/u/cyberpnk)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 12:57am UTC](https://forums.leialoft.com/t/scans-from-slides/5091/2 "2024-09-06T00:57:50Z")
Nice. I had a friend in art school that restored slides from like 100 years ago, they looked pretty good considering the age. ---
**Author:** ![Bastion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Bastion](https://forums.leialoft.com/u/Bastion)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 2:33am UTC](https://forums.leialoft.com/t/scans-from-slides/5091/3 "2024-09-06T02:33:28Z")
I have been making wonderfull 3D photos for years! But only I knew how good they were until now! On the LP2 everybody goes Wow right away. No messing about with viewers and glasses needed. My priority was to get the 2000 images I have made over the years over to LP2. The 3D photos the LP2 produces is fantastic! The best ever, especially close ups. ---
**Author:** ![mbuchana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bcef8e/32.png) [@mbuchana](https://forums.leialoft.com/u/mbuchana)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2024, 6:56pm UTC](https://forums.leialoft.com/t/scans-from-slides/5091/4 "2024-09-07T18:56:44Z")
I have a lot of Realist-format stereo slides, but I haven’t really come up with a good way to scan slides in that format. The methods I have tried take forever. How did you scan your slides? ---
**Author:** ![Bastion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Bastion](https://forums.leialoft.com/u/Bastion)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 2:24am UTC](https://forums.leialoft.com/t/scans-from-slides/5091/5 "2024-09-08T02:24:05Z")
After a lot of trial and error, I got the HP scanner below. T You will have to make your own template from some black card. You can scan multiple pairs simultaneously, but its best to then cut and save each image separately and line the pair up in Stereo Photo Maker. So dont expect an automated process. But the results are worth it. [https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c00400621](https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c00400621) ---
**Author:** ![mbuchana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bcef8e/32.png) [@mbuchana](https://forums.leialoft.com/u/mbuchana)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 7:57pm UTC](https://forums.leialoft.com/t/scans-from-slides/5091/6 "2024-09-08T19:57:27Z")
Thanks! I actually have a similar scanner that I haven’t used in a long time (HP G4050), but I wasn’t really thrilled with the quality or ease of the process when I tried it with stereo slides. I may have to give it another try. I found I had better luck just putting the slide on a light box and taking a photo of the left and right images with my iPhone and align them with Stereo Photo Maker as you describe. But it is still a long process. I used to use the same light box to mount stereo slides. ---
**Author:** ![Bastion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Bastion](https://forums.leialoft.com/u/Bastion)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 9:32pm UTC](https://forums.leialoft.com/t/scans-from-slides/5091/7 "2024-09-08T21:32:41Z")
You are probably not scanning in a resolution that is high enough. My HP scanner goes way up in resolution, so it gets the detail out of small areas. So look at your scan-settings. And it can detect parts of the entire scan and isolate them. But you still have to line things up.