Thnx for your reaction Godfrey, I did not think in the direction of having it done, yet. Economicly you're probably right, working a few days and use that money leads probably to more scanned film than I could do myself in those few days. The same holds for painting my house, but I still do it myself, maybe I'm stupid.... But, another thing is the issue of selection (for every solution there is a problem :-) : 40 years of "driven amateur photography" gave me 10 to 20 thousend slides or negatives plus 10 thousend family slides from my father. I want to select before scanning. I expect 5 to 10 % that I will want to digitize. Can I tell to scancafe to scan only #6 and #24 of a set of negative strips? For the slides I already decided not to use a projector, but select on a light table, but if I have to take every slide in my hands, it is not so much time to put an approved slide in my set up and click, I could even make a footswitch to do it faster :-) Jos
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Jun 26, 2008, at 10:02 AM, Jos from Holland wrote: > >> ... This worked for me. Suggestions for quality or speed >> improvements are >> most welcome ... >> > > > I used to scan a lot of film ... probably up to five rolls of film a > week, selectively ... and it is *always* time consuming, tedious and > difficult to get top notch results. I've done it with scanners, with > macro setups, etc etc etc. > > Most of the professionals I've talked to in the past year are now > outsourcing this work to ScanCafe (http://scancafe.com/). The results > look very good, and at $190 to scan a thousand negatives ($240 for a > thousand slides), it is great time and money savings. > > I now only scan a few frames a year at most as I explore my film > archives. For that level of endeavor, I use the Nikon Coolscan IV ED > and Vuescan software to capture the image data. I do any required > editing in Lightroom and Photoshop CS2. > > Godfrey > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
