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Negative Scanning
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My Dad is looking to digitize all 20-30 years worth of negatives – he has a negative scanner but it is fierce slow – 3 negatives takes half hour – is there a better solution or where is the best place to go to get a faster unit?
If you take them anywhere to be be scanned I am sure they will charge a fortune…
Best option I think is to buy a scanner. I have a V700. Takes about 8 minutes to scan 6 120 shots or 10 mins to scan 24 35mm shots
The v700 is around 500 euro though, you can also get a v500, not sure of the price. Give steve one of the site admins a shout, he might be able to scan them for you at a good price…
I’ll do you a good price on the V700 if you are interested. Just give us a call. :wink:
Hi –
Came across this thread while researching negative scanning services in Ireland. I have twenty-odd years of casual amateur snaps taken with a Cannon 300 film camera. I’d like to archive these shots to digital format and store them online (I use Flickr).
It’s been suggested on this thread that buying a scanner is a cheaper way to go about it, but that doesn’t take into account the time it takes to manually feed the scanner with snipped-up strips of film containing four or five shots apiece. I’ve got thousands of negs, so scanning them myself would take a lifetime – and a shockingly boring lifetime at that.
So, can anyone recommend a good quality consumer-level negative scanning service here or abroad?
regards
BenScanning is mind numbingly tedious-
so farming it out is an option.However, you should ask yourself what you want from the scans-
if it’s just so that the files can reside in a virtual shoebox,
then the original shoebox might be just as good.A viable option would be to use your DSLR to photograph the prints-
or, using a slide copier, the negatives and slides.If you want to make fine prints, this might not be the best way to go,
but for making a record, it would perhaps be a lot quicker than scanning-As a scan bureaux will charge a reasonable amount of money for smallish scans,
especially if you stipulate ‘good quality’
it can be cost effective too.I can’t recommend anyone for bulk scanning, never had it done-
joseph
Hi jb7 –
Thanks for taking the time to compose a reply. You made some points, I thought it would be worthwhile clarifying my needs:
jb7 wrote:Scanning is mind numbingly tedious-
so farming it out is an option.Yes, it’s the option for me.
jb7 wrote:However, you should ask yourself what you want from the scans-
if it’s just so that the files can reside in a virtual shoebox,
then the original shoebox might be just as good.In a shoebox, the photos are not easily viewable, neither are they indexed, tagged or searchable. In a virtual shoebox they’re available for friends and family to see and are safe from time’s depredations (Yes, I expect the JPG format to be readable in fifty years’ time – you can still buy USB turntables that play 78s!) and of course all the benefits that accrue from digital formats apply.
jb7 wrote:A viable option would be to use your DSLR to photograph the prints-
or, using a slide copier, the negatives and slides.If you want to make fine prints, this might not be the best way to go,
but for making a record, it would perhaps be a lot quicker than scanning-This assumes that my photos are in some sort of respectable order – they’re not. Some are in albums, many are in the envelopes they came back from the photo lab in.
jb7 wrote:As a scan bureaux will charge a reasonable amount of money for smallish scans,
especially if you stipulate ‘good quality’
it can be cost effective too.Sounds good. I’m looking for 10 megapixel-equivalent scans at 24 bpp or higher.
jb7 wrote:I can’t recommend anyone for bulk scanning, never had it done-
joseph
Anyone got any recommendations?
i could do scaning for you
are they mounted neg or slide or are they strips?
give me a shout and we can have a chat
stcstc wrote:
i could do scaning for you
are they mounted neg or slide or are they strips?
give me a shout and we can have a chat
Hi stcstc –
Thanks for your reply. They’re almost all strips – I have one or two sets of mounted slides.
I’ve had a look at your price list. I see you use an Epson V750 pro. That’s the kind of standard I’m looking for. What resolution do you scan at and how many negs do you scan for the €12.00?
regards
Benjb7 wrote:
A viable option would be to use your DSLR to photograph the prints – or, using a slide copier, the negatives and slides.
If you want to make fine prints, this might not be the best way to go, but for making a record, it would perhaps be a lot quicker than scanning.
Hi jb7 –
I’ve done a bit more hunting around on this option – at first I discounted it because I didn’t think the quality would even be remotely tolerable – but contributors to the thread “OT – “scanning” negatives with a macro lens – UPDATED” over on Flickr consider it a good option as the quality is decent and most importantly, it’s possible to get through about 100 negs per hour.
regards
BenBen: If you’re going to process thousands of negs/sliders, I hope you’ve got enough hard disk space :)
well if your gonna do a big bunch, i can sort out a sensible price with you
give me a shout and we can sort out
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