Re: Film/Slide Scanner

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Bill,

I just unearthed by accident as we were moving my mother to her new home a pile of 1950's B&W negatives I had shot when I was a kid.  There was about 300 frames altogether.  I decided not to scan them myself and to take them to the local lab.  I got the job done for a couple hundred dollars - scanning and printing.  Considering that I would have spent a minimum of  8 minutes each frame to scan, clean, save  and print the file, this is the equivalent of 40 hours non stop at $5 / hr, including prints.  Alternatively this is $.66 per frame.  In my own case, I figure that this was well worth the price, given competing activities on my time.

If you have a stack of 1,000 negatives, this would amount to $660 against a job of  133 hrs non-stop or roughly 3 working weeks of  5 days at 8 hrs/day.  Not a trivial amount of time...  and possibly a loss of income on account of jobs not otherwise accepted. (My apologies if I am repeating an argument already brought forward by someone else...).

Regards,

Guy

2008/8/30 Bill Ellis <wb9cac@xxxxxxxxx>
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?
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Thanks for any hel;p,

Bill Ellis



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