Not necessarily. It depends on who is running the scanner. IF you get a true professional, maybe but you don't get the education. If you happen to get the kid that needs the money for college to do something else and its their first day on the job, maybe not. Scanning takes time, but it hardly has to be the only thing you are doing while the scanner is running. I just finished a long delayed scan project of close to 1000 images. It took a couple of weeks, but I would watch TV, read a book ect during the scan time. In other words it was my more or less non productive time anyway. It took that long because my scanner could only hold 6 at a time. I almost used the excuse to get a scanner that would do a full roll of 35mm at one sitting. Then I could start scanning and then go to bed. When I wake up the next morning 6 times the work would have been done. Is it time consuming? You bet. Yet you don't have to be sitting over the computer the entire time. Some of mine were actually longer than 8 minutes and others were quicker. Start the scan and come back and check it in a half an hour. When its done, reload and start it again, but you do not have to be tied to the computer during the process. --- On Thu, 9/4/08, Chris <cjrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Chris <cjrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: RE: Film/Slide Scanner > To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008, 6:44 AM > Yes specialists are usually better and cheaper than doing it > yourself. > > > > _____ > > From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Guy Glorieux > Sent: 04 September 2008 12:33 > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - > Students > Subject: Re: Film/Slide Scanner > > > > 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? > , > Thanks for any hel;p, > > Bill Ellis
