yup..me still alive. Not drowned by the rains in London..but a bit frozen by the chill..and swamped by work! Fran... forgive me..will call you down this weekend..I literally have no idea if me alive or dead!
ok.. need to pick your brains a bit..this is for work at the Abbey... 
i have a 35mm slide that i need to blow up as a 4 ft by 8ft image.. how do i do this? the min dpi has to be 300 dpi for the printers... how high do i have to scan it and what are the specs do i have to scan it as to get that size?
Any suggestions? I had done a print for them that hangs in the museum.. 85 inches by 72 inches.. but had used an image that I shot with the digital camera. I didn't have to play the fool around with the image much since I the pix was anyway a backdrop of the Abbey archs.
The 35mm is tiny... and not to mention..the subject itself is a mere 4x5 inches high object.
HELP!!
Cheers
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The best bet I can think of is to take your slide to a professional printer. They often have an adaptor that will sit on a scanner and blow it up to any size you'd like. It really depends, at this point, on how well taken the photo was...in focus etc. As they say in music, garbage in /garbage out when mixing tracks. It will only enlarge beautifully if it's a well taken photo. Not to cast aspersions on your photographic ability but you do say it's a small image in a 35mm slide so I wish you luck.  on this. Good to see you're alive and well if some what damp....getting a bit too much of the wet stuff here in the colonies as well...LOL...It's keeping me and my summer cold away from the Winnipeg Folk Festival today, no point in making it worse....grrrr, oh well supposed to at least be nicer on Sunday.... and it was a free ticket as well, I'll have to pay for Sunday's show.. ...

You could take it into any of a number of photodeveloping shops in London and get it transfered to CD. :-)

I think a company called JESSOPS do this kind of work. They have 1 hour photo print service and cd burning facilities.

TheBryster..I gave it to Snappysnaps... hope they can do it properly. Jessops had mucked up one  of the acheologists slides -  the images were so out of focused! Not to mention..one of the slides came back to us scratched. Scary.
Was advised by the printer to give it to Snappysnaps. I think the highest size they cld go to was 5999 pixels by whatever.. at 300 dpi. I've gotten them to trim it to exactly what i want..ie..the top bit of a shield. Maybe I can blow it up then..I hope. They say the size of the file will be 7 megs. They thought that was huge. (Forgive me, I pray (in a whisper..) have they ever rendered an image in bryce as a 24  by whatever with 300 dpi? Or worked with complex bryce images? We are way too spoilt for anything less than 40 megs..)
Bobbystahr.. the slide was taken by an archeologist, I believe . i got it from the Abbey's library. They (the archeologists) do pretty good work.
I can only pray and hope. I'll pick it up on Monday..let you know what happens then.

7megs???? We are spoilt.

I tried this a while back and had a little luck using a white background like a piece of paper over the slide and just using my  (now archaic) mustek scanner. In most cases though it was still too dark. I know that they make (or used to) a scanner for slides but I don't have any current information on this. 

( Use the order: scanner slide paper - well I know you wouldn't but  some might get 'em backwards)

bikermouse.. lol..thought of trying that..dod a bit of research on the net..no go. :-(

thebryster..i get a kick when pple complain about large size files and when i ask them what size..they grumble about 5 -9 megs. Feels rather mean telling them their comp is useless...

anyway.. i'm off to the Globe and later on to the Abbey... will tell you what happened to the slide on Monday.

Hope you have a good time, Rosie!

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anyway.. i'm off to the Globe and later on to the Abbey... will tell you what happened to the slide on Monday.

Looking for the Ghost of Willy the Shake are we...LOL...have a great weekend.. ...

I set up scanners at work a lot of the time. The HP mid-level scanners (7600 family, around that level) and even older ones do come with a special attachment just for slides. You slide them in, about 5 or so at a time (never actually seen anyone use it...but they pay for it just the same...;)

if you wind up doing this on a regular basis, you could get a scanner with this.

Glad you found a solution, nevertheless.

Chuckles.. my wife was doing art printing for awhile.  She worked with both 4x5 transparencies and one lady uses 8x10 of course her works are big but after scanning those the files she works with 800 meg psd files, but they reproduced wonderfully :D

Glad you found what you needed.

http://www.hammacher.com/publish/74083.asp?source=Overture&keyword=35mm+slide+scanner&cm_ven=NewGate&cm_cat=Yahoo&cm_pla=OtherProducts&cm_ite=35mm+slide+scanner&OVRAW=35mm%20slides%20scanner&OVKEY=35mm%20slide%20scanner&OVMTC=standard&OVADID=35480757011&OVKWID=214102965511

straight google - first result. They're out there, Rosie ! ! In my case the problem is coming up with the C-Note. I never thought I'd need one when I was taking all those slides ! !  

Then again, trying the white background thing and adjusting the colors in photoshop might work if the slide is light enough but you're talking about a LOT of megapixels ! !  

i'll tr the bed scanner tmrw.
btw... bikermouse... ever work within a tight organisation?? asking for something like that is asking for the moon!
II'll keep that in mind though..IF i ever get to ordering equipment!

Yes, yes I have - I understand ! !

1st what the Hell are you doing in London LOL! Howdy Rose!

lol.. vile.. working at westminster abbey museum...