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From: Ryan McGinnis on 2 Aug 2010 10:57 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/2/2010 2:04 AM, Skylamar Jones wrote: > 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. That price is a steal; my lab charges $1.00 each. It takes forever to scan a slide in a lab; at least with the Frontier system you have to manually change out the carrier from 35mm to the slide carrier, and then manually insert each slide and scan. If any other film comes along while you're doing this, you have to pop out the slide carrier and insert the 35 again. 3000 slides would probably take a typical lab at least a month to get through, assuming they weren't that busy. It'd take even longer if you had to do it at home with a Nikon Coolscan or somesuch. (They produce marginally better scans, but take around a minute or two per scanned image at the best settings.) It takes me the better part of two hours to scan in a roll of 36 slides on my slide scanner at home, and then I have to process the files. Unless your time isn't worth much or the endproduct of the slides is commercial licensing, it's better to hire someone else to do it. I'm with the other repliers here -- have her pick out her favorites and let the lab scan them. - -- - -Ryan McGinnis The BIG Storm Picture -- http://bigstormpicture.com Vortex-2 image licensing at http://vortex-2.com Getty: http://www.gettyimages.com/search/search.aspx?artist=Ryan+McGinnis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMVtzyAAoJEIzODkDZ7B1bT48IAJGs4ZAUbhkchwevz9GfcrJJ lTI++7w7ee8h69gqRwDIA5vMLzsZoY1FeQlElRl5fYfIMlzfbd2nSbfCBYaLa+vC LGPPT+vjiktHtUyNi3UKLIGlU6Cq3rDaCg3pOqpRorKD/6UbTmAEEq27usukK1sS jOmwHSFaqcN60grL4t5ZHwNlt5s0iG99VmtJVZOt0W7AOx8XXYB4OwlGaHzLIKNw rIUIriGvC58sKvoPRg2rvhAyRSM4/XDUUfqKnxuZzrve0KC9Ls+FtU1WICVRd6uD 9kUea3jA76BZ0RDsLPUt6L2UgBIbB0mM8J+QFbYZ+Y6QN+XWRU7e5KZKDBKAKe0= =L/Hw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From: Ryan McGinnis on 2 Aug 2010 11:00 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/2/2010 9:38 AM, gordito995(a)teranews.com wrote: > 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. Unfortunately, the quality of the scans produced by these flatbed scanners aren't even in the same ballpark as the scans pumped out by dedicated slide scanners or most photolab scanning equipment. If she's not that picky, though, it could do the job. Of course, you'd still have to spend a solid month of your life doing nothing but scanning slides. - -- - -Ryan McGinnis The BIG Storm Picture -- http://bigstormpicture.com Vortex-2 image licensing at http://vortex-2.com Getty: http://www.gettyimages.com/search/search.aspx?artist=Ryan+McGinnis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMVt2bAAoJEIzODkDZ7B1b4jMH/29aCn2IgoexiKiiVDOOUay8 lmrrRVRvcBnLPdbNYvLrXX3zVqA9250SozMHoP5R1visID4Atkh5ZFuLM8nTbySP s69U6rvi4v/q3hog/qCCm6RzaR5elzin3KCej+0n7vvaPVmS6tYCb9mjxDN1LMz2 rY9uwEjDIQbIDuCjPTVCpn2LpdAewhi8UvGxpQ9qfRxvjg3ofTVRcn/noU8gk/VF qynC3NQmlKl7r8fI90xYSDoG3EqhtPxxa6wYydeMZzmOvJ5lxTcjz9w43uerkPX6 jEETrg5GI2fe6pyMswXzKcHAyrPVsQyIN71UTrWYVitKZErElK71NxAsHiyuVFg= =kAMl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From: Dave Cohen on 2 Aug 2010 11:02 On 8/2/2010 3:04 AM, 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 I used a dedicated slide/negative duplicator that sells for around $100. It worked fairly well for negatives but was unsatisfactory for color slides, so avoid that. Flat bed scanners may do better. If I had to do it, I would play with the camera solutions suggested in other threads. The commercial camera accessory shown made by Soligor looks interesting but you need a camera that will work with that.
From: bugbear on 2 Aug 2010 11:10 MG wrote: > "Skylamar Jones" <skylamar(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:skylamar-4154CD.00042602082010(a)free.teranews.com... >> 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 > > Here is a DIY approach. (costs nothing) > http://www.blighty.co.za/brsd/ > Probably not for your Mom, but maybe you could do it for her. from the site: >Once I got going, I managed to copy a set of 150 slides in just over an hour. So 3000/150 = 20 hours, or (if you like) 20 days at an hour a night. That's doable, if not enjoyable as such. BugBear
From: ray on 2 Aug 2010 11:23
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:57:54 -0500, Ryan McGinnis wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8/2/2010 2:04 AM, Skylamar Jones wrote: > >> 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. > > That price is a steal; my lab charges $1.00 each. It takes forever to > scan a slide in a lab; at least with the Frontier system you have to > manually change out the carrier from 35mm to the slide carrier, and then > manually insert each slide and scan. If any other film comes along > while you're doing this, you have to pop out the slide carrier and > insert the 35 again. 3000 slides would probably take a typical lab at > least a month to get through, assuming they weren't that busy. > > It'd take even longer if you had to do it at home with a Nikon Coolscan > or somesuch. (They produce marginally better scans, but take around a > minute or two per scanned image at the best settings.) It takes me the > better part of two hours to scan in a roll of 36 slides on my slide > scanner at home, and then I have to process the files. Unless your time > isn't worth much or the endproduct of the slides is commercial > licensing, it's better to hire someone else to do it. > > I'm with the other repliers here -- have her pick out her favorites and > let the lab scan them. Yeah - but if she limits it to her 'favorites' there are likely to only be about 2950 vice 3000. > > - -- > - -Ryan McGinnis > The BIG Storm Picture -- http://bigstormpicture.com Vortex-2 image > licensing at http://vortex-2.com Getty: > http://www.gettyimages.com/search/search.aspx?artist=Ryan+McGinnis > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMVtzyAAoJEIzODkDZ7B1bT48IAJGs4ZAUbhkchwevz9GfcrJJ > lTI++7w7ee8h69gqRwDIA5vMLzsZoY1FeQlElRl5fYfIMlzfbd2nSbfCBYaLa+vC > LGPPT+vjiktHtUyNi3UKLIGlU6Cq3rDaCg3pOqpRorKD/6UbTmAEEq27usukK1sS > jOmwHSFaqcN60grL4t5ZHwNlt5s0iG99VmtJVZOt0W7AOx8XXYB4OwlGaHzLIKNw > rIUIriGvC58sKvoPRg2rvhAyRSM4/XDUUfqKnxuZzrve0KC9Ls+FtU1WICVRd6uD > 9kUea3jA76BZ0RDsLPUt6L2UgBIbB0mM8J+QFbYZ+Y6QN+XWRU7e5KZKDBKAKe0= =L/Hw > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |