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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Thanks for the replies.
My ultimate goal here is to produce a thumb drive (or other media) that contains these images to give to immediate family members. In addition I will use the digital images and the internet to help understand my fathers history better.
I think it's reasonable to assume I will want/need to improve the quality of some of the important images. (or have somebody do that for me) It's also reasonable to assume that these images will be used for everything from digital photo frames, to prints, maybe even having them play in a loop on a 30" flat panel tv mounted on the wall as I have seen some folks do. (although that may be stretching things a bit)
The flatbed scanner I own is the 6th or so one down in the list that Larry posted. Epson Perfection V500 (mine is the previous version to the one currently for sale). As I mentioned it worked good for the 30 or so negatives/slides I got scanned, but it is a very slow process and I'd like to get this done over the next several months if possible.
My ultimate goal here is to produce a thumb drive (or other media) that contains these images to give to immediate family members. In addition I will use the digital images and the internet to help understand my fathers history better.
I think it's reasonable to assume I will want/need to improve the quality of some of the important images. (or have somebody do that for me) It's also reasonable to assume that these images will be used for everything from digital photo frames, to prints, maybe even having them play in a loop on a 30" flat panel tv mounted on the wall as I have seen some folks do. (although that may be stretching things a bit)
The flatbed scanner I own is the 6th or so one down in the list that Larry posted. Epson Perfection V500 (mine is the previous version to the one currently for sale). As I mentioned it worked good for the 30 or so negatives/slides I got scanned, but it is a very slow process and I'd like to get this done over the next several months if possible.
