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
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>
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
