Easy way to transfer tons of old photos to flash drive
DW's been organizing our old photos (500-1000 or therabouts). I was looking for semi-quick and easy way to copy photos onto flash drive. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
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How valuable are your photos? I'm always a little leery of handing over priceless photos over to a third party service. Especially, if they are not a professional lab. You don't know if they will handle them properly to prevent damage, or if they may even be lost. Better IMO to do it yourself.
Any scanner comes with software, or can be downloaded from the manufacturer's website, which is all you really need to scan photos yourself. I've seen many new, or lightly used scanners available at thrift stores such as Goodwill. Recently, picked up a 7,200dpi negative scanner for $15.
Most already have a scanner built into their inkjet or laser printers, but a negative type film scanner will likely give you the best overall quality.
BTW, you may want to scan your photos to an uncompressed format such as .tiff for archiving, but will use a substantially greater amount of disc space.
Any scanner comes with software, or can be downloaded from the manufacturer's website, which is all you really need to scan photos yourself. I've seen many new, or lightly used scanners available at thrift stores such as Goodwill. Recently, picked up a 7,200dpi negative scanner for $15.
Most already have a scanner built into their inkjet or laser printers, but a negative type film scanner will likely give you the best overall quality.
BTW, you may want to scan your photos to an uncompressed format such as .tiff for archiving, but will use a substantially greater amount of disc space.
