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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Gdetrailer wrote:
Bed scanner is part of your problem...
I can easily process 40 slides in 15 minutes with minor touch ups on each slide.. That is about 160 slides per hr.
The vendor they are using is YESVIDEO and you can contact them directly if you go to their website and get the phone number.. You can ask them what resolution they are using.. I would think it should be at least 4,200 DPI..
Yeah, there was no way I was able to get even remotely close to that rate of scan using the flatbed. It was very painful.
Looks like sams, costco, cvs, walmart and bartell are all using yesvideo. I will contact yesvideo and find out what resolution they are using. One advantage of using costco (in our case) is it's an easy drop off place. No need to mail them somewhere.
Legacy seems to get a good amount of positive reviews as well.
Separating the slides we want scanned vs the ones we don't is going to be a bit of task as well, given the quantity. Most of the slides are in metal cartridges (for lack of a better term) which are used in my fathers old projector and projected on a portable screen. As I recall there is a lever that moves in and out, and the cartridge moves forward (or backward) each time a new slide is needed. The projector and screen may very well still be in the attic at my sisters house.
I have been trying to review each slide using one of those handheld viewers but I can't get enough context to tell if it's a good image or not. It may be faster to set that screen up one afternoon and my sister and I can cycle through the cartridges, and pull out only the slides we want scanned. This process doesn't sound all that fun. It may take some beers to complete it.
