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Article #47Re: Newbie question: Scanner recommendations - I have inherited a couple of thousand negatives and photos from the 1920s to the...
From: Nige
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:12
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:12
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"Alan Rutlidge .iinet.net.au>" <rutlidge@<No_Spam> wrote in message news:41bc3905$0$15636$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au... > > > The alternative might be to approach a digital scanning lab for a quote. > With such a high number of negs to scan professional drum scanning might be > the better option. I'm thinking not only the cost of a good film scanner > but the time to scan them involved. Of course if personal time isn't an > issue I suppose doing them by hand is entirely feasible and economical. yep, worth the exercise to know what it would cost to compare against the cost of buying something(s) and doing it yourself. > Having scanned both transparencies > and negative on a flatbed scanner with a proper film adapter unit I can > assure you it is a time consuming and tedious process I'd rather not have to > do again. agreed! I've got thousands of scans done this way.. but they've been done over many years :) Cheers, Nige
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