On 02/08/2018 10:34, wrote:
On Thu, 02 Aug 2018 00:08:58 -0600, Wally wrote:
at 20p/negative, £1000. Look at them all, and see if any were worth
working on.

My experience was that after going down that kind of route, in the end
the only sensible approach was to systematically scan the lot manually
to the highest resolution possible, in batches of (say) one roll of
negatives at a time.

Obviously discarding at this stage the definite clunkers, out of
focus, unacceptable facial expressions, images of no interest, etc.

Scan them in, sort them, batch rename, etc., But do not stop for fine
editing at this point Better workfllow to have scan sessions, and
then editing sessions, not both at the same time.

The gambit of rough scan then redo for the ones of interest doesn't
work -- for example, sometimes you have a bad image but half of it is
of interest. Do that half while you see it, otherwise you'll never
go back to it. You need to decide on scan or not there and then, not
later.


Are these online/retail commercial scanners really that bad, then? You
can't even get a ballpark estimate of whether the shot is worth keeping?
I've got maybe 400 35mm negatives I was thinking of committing to an
online processor. If a decent number were worth keeping I'd buy a decent
scanner.

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Cheers, Rob