Originally posted by pama123 I've got a boatload of negatives and slides to digitise...
I was considering Nikon Coolscan, but I can just imagine the time it would take to 'de-dust' each frame, scan, do preliminary touch ups.. etc... So I've begun to consider sending them out.
Scan Cafe caught my eye. From 24 cents a frame.. they'll scan everything and present it to you over the web. Then you select what you actually want, so you only pay for the 'keepers'. This is great for me, as I had a habit of bracketing a fare bit and not throwing anything away.
Has anyone tried this or similar?
Paul
define boatload. I had 5000 slides and 15000 negatives.
the scanner I used (Minolta Dimage II) had a carrier for slides, 4 at a time, and a carrier for neg's, 6 at a time.
so you de-dust 6 at a time, and batch process them. while it might have taken 30-45 minutes to do the 6 frames, it really boiled down to a few minutes every hour.
took me 4 years but I scanned everything.
I still have the neg's and slides stored in archival pages so it I need to go back I can always re-scan. I have not found th e need yet.
I have heard of places in india that are as low as $.19 per frame, but think of the cost. 20,000 frames is still about $5,000