Anyway to do this and conserve quality???

Have a custom lab do it.

As Doug said, a good custom lab can do it.

They can either do a "direct" copy, or scan them and digitize them.

However, it would be better if you had the original negatives rather than prints to copy.

Of course, it also depends on what you're planning for the end product, or how much quality you "need" in the slides.

sscoyote,

I am trying to go the other way. Have over 4,000 slides, that I want to put on "cd or dvd". I was going to scan them,but at 50 seconds a scan, I decided I had better things to do with my time. I don't have a drum scanner, so I don't know if I will ever get them scanned.

Just a thought, what advantage in going from a print to a slide ?

Try Photoworks out of Seattle, they are the only outfit that I know of that will make slides out of any film or negatives and they do it reasonable if not cheaply
www.photoworks.com

Chestsprings,

There is no advantage as such. It all depends on what final result or product you want. Nowadays I would just do a high quality scan to CD and then store the negs in some archival way to protect them. Most negatives are much high resolution than the current scanning technology will capture. Later on when the technology improves then you can rescan them. I still shoot 4x5 film and then scan it to take advantage of the convenience of digital imaging while preserving the original image on film. Someday the digital imaging will be higher quality than film, but until it is, I will capture my orginals on film for important things. As for snapshots, digital is the way to go!

Just remember that every reproduction step loses some image quality.

a couple of things I missed, Seatle will also take any negative and put it to CD
Personnally I get my photo from film developed to slides and cd
Slides do not get damaged all misplaced since they are stored in the projector rings or boxes, you have to careful of cd since heat distorts them plus scratches causes havoc

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Originally posted by sscoyote:
Anyway to do this and conserve quality???

The quality of what? You can preserve the quality of the print but it will never look like an original slide.