Well before you do that you probably want to investigate exactly where these are scanned. Many of these are shipped to India for scanning and then shipped back, where labor is plentiful and cheap. It also adds the risk of loss in shipping into the picture. Still for the money and time its something to consider. If I did ship anything out, I would never do it all in one box. Id split it up into at least two and try to divide them up so some of each known occasion is in each box. At least if one box got lost, you wouldn't lose everything. --- On Sat, 8/30/08, Denis Sweeney <sweeneyd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Denis Sweeney <sweeneyd@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Film/Slide Scanner > To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Saturday, August 30, 2008, 10:40 PM > Bill, > > You might want to try a service like this one: > http://scanmyphotos.com/ > > I haven't tried it yet, but it sounds amazing. > Pricing is: $49.95 for up to 1,000 photo scans, or > "prepaid fill-the-box > service" for $124.95. > They can do prints, slides, negatives and video too > > Personally, I have a lot of prints that I would love to > have in digital > format (some just to preserve them), and this sounds like > the quickest and > most economical solution, by far, assuming the quality is > good. > Good luck and let me know what you finally decide to go > with. > > Regards, > > Denis > ____________________ > Denis Sweeney > http://friendfeed.com/denis408 > > > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Stephen Buckman > <buckoproductions@xxxxxxx>wrote: > > > Bill, > > > > You can try a Nikon CoolScan 4000ED or 5000ED. > > > > Steve > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have several hundred/thousand slides and negatives I > want to digitize. My > > plan is to pick up(ebay,etc) a used scanner and then > sell the scanner > > afterwards. Any suggestions? > > , > > Thanks for any hel;p, > > > > Bill Ellis > > > >
