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From: John McWilliams on 2 Aug 2010 09:16 Ofnuts wrote: > On 02/08/2010 09:04, Skylamar Jones wrote: >> Hi. I'm new to this group so I don't know if someone posted a similar >> question recently. >> >> My mom has 3000 slides taken by my dad, who has passed away. Because of >> the space the slides take up in her home, my mom is weeding through >> them, looking at them manually using a slide projector. >> >> She isn't that computer savvy but she told me that Costco charges 29 >> cents per slide for digitizing them. For 3000 slides that's $870 which >> is more than my mom wants to spend. >> >> I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for other ideas for >> digitizing slides such as using a company that's cheaper/better than >> Costco or a buying/renting good scanner that my mom can use at home. > > Digitizing slides at home is extremely labor intensive, unless you have > one of these very expensive Nikon scanners with all their expensive > options that make it just plain labor intensive. > > I'm facing the very same problem (except I'd be the one doing the > scanning) but I'm taking another route: reduce my Dad's 3000 slides to a > set of 100-200 worth passing to the next generations. > My first thought, too. Go through them with her, make notes and mark the ones really worth keeping. Good luck! -- john mcwilliams
From: Ofnuts on 2 Aug 2010 10:00 On 02/08/2010 09:04, Skylamar Jones wrote: > Hi. I'm new to this group so I don't know if someone posted a similar > question recently. > > My mom has 3000 slides taken by my dad, who has passed away. Because of > the space the slides take up in her home, my mom is weeding through > them, looking at them manually using a slide projector. > > She isn't that computer savvy but she told me that Costco charges 29 > cents per slide for digitizing them. For 3000 slides that's $870 which > is more than my mom wants to spend. > > I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for other ideas for > digitizing slides such as using a company that's cheaper/better than > Costco or a buying/renting good scanner that my mom can use at home. > > Thanks, > > Sky Comme to think of it... if you have a decent camera, there are slide duplicators such as this: <http://www.soligor.de/src/product_details.php?cPath=134_232&pid=47900&language=en> This is a bit faster than the scanner. -- Bertrand
From: tony cooper on 2 Aug 2010 10:08 On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:16:49 -0400, John McWilliams <jpmcw(a)comcast.net> wrote: >Ofnuts wrote: >> On 02/08/2010 09:04, Skylamar Jones wrote: >>> Hi. I'm new to this group so I don't know if someone posted a similar >>> question recently. >>> >>> My mom has 3000 slides taken by my dad, who has passed away. Because of >>> the space the slides take up in her home, my mom is weeding through >>> them, looking at them manually using a slide projector. >>> >>> She isn't that computer savvy but she told me that Costco charges 29 >>> cents per slide for digitizing them. For 3000 slides that's $870 which >>> is more than my mom wants to spend. >>> >>> I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for other ideas for >>> digitizing slides such as using a company that's cheaper/better than >>> Costco or a buying/renting good scanner that my mom can use at home. >> >> Digitizing slides at home is extremely labor intensive, unless you have >> one of these very expensive Nikon scanners with all their expensive >> options that make it just plain labor intensive. >> >> I'm facing the very same problem (except I'd be the one doing the >> scanning) but I'm taking another route: reduce my Dad's 3000 slides to a >> set of 100-200 worth passing to the next generations. >> >My first thought, too. Go through them with her, make notes and mark the >ones really worth keeping. >Good luck! I think most of us of a certain age have gone through this with either their own slides or slides taken by a parent. I did, and I culled the slides down to about 10% "keepers" and scanned them myself. The process of weeding them out is quite enjoyable. Going through the slides brings back a lot of memories. The process of scanning is less enjoyable, but can be done over a period of time. -- Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
From: gordito995 on 2 Aug 2010 10:38 "tony cooper" <tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message news:k4kd56t0um19o16sb4fkraehu6b7gn14q3(a)4ax.com... > On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:16:49 -0400, John McWilliams > <jpmcw(a)comcast.net> wrote: > >>Ofnuts wrote: >>> On 02/08/2010 09:04, Skylamar Jones wrote: >>>> Hi. I'm new to this group so I don't know if someone posted a similar >>>> question recently. >>>> >>>> My mom has 3000 slides taken by my dad, who has passed away. Because of >>>> the space the slides take up in her home, my mom is weeding through >>>> them, looking at them manually using a slide projector. >>>> >>>> She isn't that computer savvy but she told me that Costco charges 29 >>>> cents per slide for digitizing them. For 3000 slides that's $870 which >>>> is more than my mom wants to spend. >>>> >>>> I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for other ideas for >>>> digitizing slides such as using a company that's cheaper/better than >>>> Costco or a buying/renting good scanner that my mom can use at home. >>> >>> Digitizing slides at home is extremely labor intensive, unless you have >>> one of these very expensive Nikon scanners with all their expensive >>> options that make it just plain labor intensive. >>> >>> I'm facing the very same problem (except I'd be the one doing the >>> scanning) but I'm taking another route: reduce my Dad's 3000 slides to a >>> set of 100-200 worth passing to the next generations. >>> >>My first thought, too. Go through them with her, make notes and mark the >>ones really worth keeping. >>Good luck! > > I think most of us of a certain age have gone through this with either > their own slides or slides taken by a parent. I did, and I culled the > slides down to about 10% "keepers" and scanned them myself. > > The process of weeding them out is quite enjoyable. Going through the > slides brings back a lot of memories. The process of scanning is less > enjoyable, but can be done over a period of time. > -- > Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida Certainly, it is good advice to cull out the slides that have little or not compelling reason to keep them. I also have been through this with my own and my father's slides. Went from around 3500 to around 800. Second, there are a number of flat bed scanners that can scan slides and color film as well as opaque materials. These scanners are not as expensive as a good slide scanner and will have a useful life beyond scanning the slides. Regards, Gordo
From: ray on 2 Aug 2010 10:52
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:04:28 -0700, Skylamar Jones wrote: > Hi. I'm new to this group so I don't know if someone posted a similar > question recently. > > My mom has 3000 slides taken by my dad, who has passed away. Because of > the space the slides take up in her home, my mom is weeding through > them, looking at them manually using a slide projector. > > She isn't that computer savvy but she told me that Costco charges 29 > cents per slide for digitizing them. For 3000 slides that's $870 which > is more than my mom wants to spend. > > I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for other ideas for > digitizing slides such as using a company that's cheaper/better than > Costco or a buying/renting good scanner that my mom can use at home. > > Thanks, > > Sky TANSTAAFL (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch) applies here. You can buy a decent flatbed scanner with slide/negative scanning capabilities for around $100. It would then take a LONG time to process them adequately. You might actually get through a few hundred before you gave up. Strongly suggest you do a web search (google is one) to try and find a lower cost solution. |