35mm slides from computer

[Khandro]

Is it possible to make 35mm transparancies from photos stored in my computer so that I can use them for a presentation?

[Postdog]

slides are created with a negative, which you don't have.

Maybe it's possible, but it'll probably be hassle all round.

If you want to present something from a PC, there are plenty of ways to do it - it's used in teaching and training all the time.

[gilf]

Can be done but would need specialist equipment to do it

Do a google search for "slides from digital files" to see a list of people who offer the service, seems a bit pricey bu could be worth it is you were going to use them a lot.

[sandmaster]

I don't think 35mm slides are possible but with Powerpoint (part of the Microsoft Office Suite) you can make A4 films for overhead projectors.

[tonymclark]

I think, Postdog, you will find transparencies (slides) are created from positive film, there is no negative like you had/have with photographic prints. The slide film is developed as a positive image.

Yes is is possible to print a computer image onto film, otherwise Computer Generated films like Toy Story would never have reached the cinema.

As gilf says, it is probably expencive...

http://www.lieberman-labs.com/service/index.ht m

[sandmaster]

I did, of course, mean it is not possible at home (for most of us anyway). Probably photographic labs will be able to do it.

[Khandro]

Thanks to all. I think I shall have to either go down a different route to present the images, as postdog says, or I might just try putting them one my monitor screen and photographing them with a 35mm SLR camera loaded with slide film; a bit crude, but I don't want to spend a fortune on this project.

[SurreyGuy]

Perhaps if you'd put this question in the correct section ("Technology" or, at a push, "How It Works"), you might have had more feedback!

I appreciate that 35mm film is a medium, but it is not the sort of media that this section is meant for!

[cc1]

I bought a. Epson V200 scanner with a slide adapter and I've copied all my slides onto the computer. It was easy to set up and to use. It cost about �70 which was alot cheaper than commercial companies would have charged to transfer them for me. The enhancement software is very good, not only with transparencies but digital photos.

[cc1]

Sorry, just reread your question and realised I've talked twaddle.
You can get transparency acetate film to use in your printer however, I used to make acetates for the OHP when I was teaching this way.

[Khandro]

Thanks cc1, but I have used your method of printing on acetate from photoshop; it's ok for large sheets which can then be used in an overhead projector, but when the image is reduced to 35mm the quality of a printed, rather than a photo image, is very poor - there just aint enough dpi. I guess I'm trying to do what you first suggested only in reverse, and I was hoping someone had come up with a magic solution.