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There's a company called Scan Cafe which will scan your slides for .35 each (right now they're only .29 each) These are high quality scans and I've got friends who are professional photographers who use their service. One of the nice things about their service is that they will let you cancel out up to 50% of your order if you don't like the scans.
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One thing to keep in mind with ScanCafe is that they ship your slides, along with all the other orders they have received for a particular time frame, overseas for actual processing. That may not be a deal breaker, but it is something to be aware of.
Take time to read the fine print in the contract or agreement. Make certain you know exactly how the files that are generated from the scanning will be maintained by the scanning service. Also, make sure you are not granting limited copyright usage to the scanning service of the photos.
Depending on the number of slides you have and other documents you may want to scan in, it may make sense to consider purchasing a scanner and doing the work yourself. I have a little over 2,000 slides and about 3,000 prints of all shapes and sizes that I have been slowly scanning in over the last year or so. All of this has been done used a Canon LiDE 600F scanner with the film strip attachment. I prefer scanning in my old slides as I can take the time to edit them as I would like to.
One thing to keep in mind with ScanCafe is that they ship your slides, along with all the other orders they have received for a particular time frame, overseas for actual processing. That may not be a deal breaker, but it is something to be aware of.
Take time to read the fine print in the contract or agreement. Make certain you know exactly how the files that are generated from the scanning will be maintained by the scanning service. Also, make sure you are not granting limited copyright usage to the scanning service of the photos.
Depending on the number of slides you have and other documents you may want to scan in, it may make sense to consider purchasing a scanner and doing the work yourself. I have a little over 2,000 slides and about 3,000 prints of all shapes and sizes that I have been slowly scanning in over the last year or so. All of this has been done used a Canon LiDE 600F scanner with the film strip attachment. I prefer scanning in my old slides as I can take the time to edit them as I would like to.
Thanks for the info. Yes sending it overseas would be a dealbreaker. I have nothing against another country processing them, however its another added middleman to possibly lose my slides.
As for the scanner you use, how is the quality of the copied print versus the actual slide?
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Thanks for the info. Yes sending it overseas would be a dealbreaker. I have nothing against another country processing them, however its another added middleman to possibly lose my slides.
As for the scanner you use, how is the quality of the copied print versus the actual slide?
The quality of the digital print vis the original depends on the sharpness of the original and the resolution of the scanner. In the case of the Canon I mentioned, it has a maximum resolution of 4800 x 9600 color dpi.
To give you a sense of the good and the bad, below are two images I scanned in recently from the whole group I've been scanning.
This is a scan of a good photo taken with a Canon AE1 Program. The scan settings were sRGB color and 300 dpi.
WVU vs. Rutgers - 1994
This scan is of a degraded photo taken with an old Kodak Instamatic. Scan settings were also sRGB color and 300 dpi.
Richmond vs. Rutgers - 1985
I hope this helps a bit to give you sense of clarity of the scans.
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