On 31/07/18 14:20, nospam wrote:
In article , Tim Watts
wrote:

Any recommendations please for bulk scanning services in the UK?

These are family snaps - not high quality but worth a lot in sentimental
value and it's time to move them to digital for long term preservation
and accessibility.

So I'm looking for a good price/quality balance as these are not pro
quality films. But I would like dust/dirt issues to be minimised as far
as possible.

Home scanning might be an option if more cost effective - but I don't
know of what is currently a decent scanner.

I'd like the IR channel feature that I had in an old Nikon ICE Coolscan
I used a long time ago as it was pretty good at removing dirt/dust visually.

scanning is very cost effective, but not very time effective.

buy a used scanner, ideally a nikon coolscan, scan your stuff, then
resell it to the next person who has some film to scan for roughly what
your paid. the net cost will be negligible, maybe even a small profit.

on the other hand, scanning takes a lot of time. what's *that* worth to
you?


Good question...

If the scanner is decent and maybe takes a magazine bar that holds a few
and batch scans them (or a strip of 5-6 negs) *and* if it can get a
decent RAW scan on consistent settings so I can whack them through and
polish the files at leisure *then* self scan's a pretty good option.

If I literally have to fiddle with every file there and then scanning a
preview then a final, it will take forever


Good idea about buying a 2nd hand unit...


Cheers for that!