Photo scanning services?
My late father was a very active amateur photographer and I have a significant amount of 35mm negatives/slides/and prints that I would like to convert to digital. In addition to all the photos that my...
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Fizz wrote:Wrace wrote:
I found this place on yelp, and it got very good reviews. Technically not really 'local' as it's about 4 hours away. But having to make the drive twice would be worth it to me to get it done.
This is their pricing page. Please take a look. Cost seems pretty reasonable? Standard pricing is for 600dpi. 1200dpi requires a .30 per image addition. I don't see a need for more than 600dpi for just run of the mill images?
I can bring in a portable HD or thumb drive and they will put the images on them.
http://www.lotusmedia.us/pricing-1.html
Nothing wrong with 600DPI.
Do a bit of research you will see it is more than adequate for your needs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh58Npzhci4
600 DPI IS TERRIBLE for 35mm slide or negatives, I have an 15yr old HP bed scanner which is 1200DPI which is double the resolution of that service..
If you want small 3.5x5 "print" equivalent quality then that would be "acceptable" but you ARE throwing away a huge amount of resolution.
And if you are wanting or would like to edit or cleanup the photos it IS a lost cause with too low of a DPI and will pixelate badly while editing the fine details or printing a larger print.
35 mm slides can easily be blown up to fit onto a projector screen which IS how they were originally viewed.
If you are going to go to the effort and cost of converting them to digital then using a the highest quality resolution only makes sense.
2400 native DPI would be the place to start at and that still falls short of what a 35mm slide can offer.
Now days the manual scanners are rating in MegaPixels instead of DPI, average seems to be 14 MP native and 22 MP through software.
14 MP is close to 4200 DPI..
HERE is a search for 35mm scanners.
