Originally posted by ZombieArmy Yah but get enough photos scanned and the value proposition really doesn't make much sense. Even with my meager amount of film shots the coolscan 4000 ED made more sense.
I disagree. Value is cost over unit time. Paying TDR $5 per 36 frames (sometimes 24) saves me about 3 hours of work, just for the scanning. On top of that, they do simple density and minor color adjustments for me. Just working with round numbers, the $5 per roll scanning cost saves me about 4 hours work per roll.
On the other hand, you paid way more than $5 for a scanner, so you could spend your TIME NOT spending $5 to pay someone else to do it. My method seems way less expensive, to me. Time is money. Money I've got. I'll gladly buy the time.