On Thu, September 4, 2008 06:44, Chris wrote: > Yes specialists are usually better and cheaper than doing it yourself. I don't expect better at that price-point. You won't be getting drum scans. For that matter, I don't expect an expert operator, or even somebody who looks at the results. I expect a stack-fed scanner operating on automatic. Which still might be an appropriate choice for the first pass. What percentage of photos in the stack are likely to be of serious interest? Working with my 1991 England photos (I forget why I started that pile, rather than the 1987 or 1994 trips) I've found that scanning at less than full-res on automatic is somewhat useful, and good enough for web snapshot album display, and identifies the photos I might want to scan well myself (or if they dmax is extreme, get scanned commercially by an actual expert). -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
