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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I have used a few different ways to digitize old photos, slides, etc over the last 5 years. Recently I purchased a slide/negative scanner from Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/DBTech-35mm-Slide-Negative-Scanner/dp/B007VDN1PA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379416639&sr=8-1&keywords=slide+scanner which I enjoyed using. Probably did just over a thousand old 35MM slides with it. The old slides, 30 to 40 years of age had suffered from the effects of time on them, but they came out good enough for what I wanted. Once I had the slides out of the little boxes or out of the trays, I was able to scan about 5 or 6 slides per minute.
With paper photos, it will also handle negatives. Most of the time, in the olden days when we had film developed, we got back prints and the negatives in the box. For some unknown reason we threw away most of the negatives and only kept the prints. But if a person still has the negatives, then a scanner like this one will do them as well. One feature I really like was the small scanner saved the digital image to an SD chip, not even needing to be connected to a computer. Then download the SD chip to multiple computers was easy and quick, using Picasa 3.
In the past I digitized many of our prints on a flat bed scanner, it worked, but slow and boring project, much like watching paint dry.
My BIL, that lives in DC, went with the commercial method and dropped off his old slides and prints at a local camera shop, which then went to India to be digitized. He received an email with the URL as to their location on the internet. He was able to sign on and then view all the finished product. By checking, the ones he wanted to have them put on a CD/DVE, he didn't have to pay for any of the "out of focus, duplicates, etc". Once he had done this, in a couple of weeks he received all his originals back with the disks of the digital ones. Cost was about $.35usd per photo. He spent a couple of hundred dollars and was well satisfied with the end results.
After digitizing this last thousand slides I put them on our Picasa Album, online. (now called google + photos) Set them up to share with immediate family members and find my two young grandsons, 8 and 10, spend time looking at the photos at their home, especially those of their mother, our oldest daughter, when she was about their age. I believe I am now finished with digitizing all our old photos, prints and slides, so the new small scanner is soon to be headed to my other BIL in Portland, for him to scan their old slides.
With paper photos, it will also handle negatives. Most of the time, in the olden days when we had film developed, we got back prints and the negatives in the box. For some unknown reason we threw away most of the negatives and only kept the prints. But if a person still has the negatives, then a scanner like this one will do them as well. One feature I really like was the small scanner saved the digital image to an SD chip, not even needing to be connected to a computer. Then download the SD chip to multiple computers was easy and quick, using Picasa 3.
In the past I digitized many of our prints on a flat bed scanner, it worked, but slow and boring project, much like watching paint dry.
My BIL, that lives in DC, went with the commercial method and dropped off his old slides and prints at a local camera shop, which then went to India to be digitized. He received an email with the URL as to their location on the internet. He was able to sign on and then view all the finished product. By checking, the ones he wanted to have them put on a CD/DVE, he didn't have to pay for any of the "out of focus, duplicates, etc". Once he had done this, in a couple of weeks he received all his originals back with the disks of the digital ones. Cost was about $.35usd per photo. He spent a couple of hundred dollars and was well satisfied with the end results.
After digitizing this last thousand slides I put them on our Picasa Album, online. (now called google + photos) Set them up to share with immediate family members and find my two young grandsons, 8 and 10, spend time looking at the photos at their home, especially those of their mother, our oldest daughter, when she was about their age. I believe I am now finished with digitizing all our old photos, prints and slides, so the new small scanner is soon to be headed to my other BIL in Portland, for him to scan their old slides.
