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35mm slide and negative scanning - UK?
On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 12:00:23 +0100, RJH wrote:
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. For anything more than a handfull of images. a thitd party service will cost you ****loads and the "rough scans" will be mediocre. Plus, you'll be presented with hundreds of dinky images which will after a few minutes all look much of a muchness, making a sensible decision of which ones to select for a second do extremely inefficient. Basically, mind-fog. As always, there is no "qucik and easy" fix that's worth the trouble. The only way in that really works is doing it right, yourself, the first time. That means running every single neg through the scanner yourself and deciding at the pre-scan stage which ones to scan. Only you can tell which images are ones that you want to keep. Remember also that in the examination of each image, you may well see shots -- or parts of shots -- that leap out at you that you missed when thumbing through the prints. Nobody else can do it for you because it's a value judgment. If a decent number were worth keeping I'd buy a decent scanner. You need to have your own scanner for this kind of project, if only because it will take so long when there's more than a handful of images. The scanner will retain its value, so once done, you may want to sell on the scanner. But in this kind of archiving project, the cost of the scanner should be the very least of your considerations. |
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35mm slide and negative scanning - UK?
On 05/08/2018 00:37, The Real Bev wrote:
On 08/02/2018 04:00 AM, RJH wrote: snip 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. Review from a highly-reputable world traveler/edventurer with a lot of slides to scan: http://straightchuter.com/35mm-slide-scanning/ Interesting - I see they (https://www.scancafe.com/services/us-express-scanning) provide an 'India option' - quite an operation. His 'sentimental value photos' are considerably more than that. Agreed. -- Cheers, Rob |
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