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| Thread ID: 106611 | 2010-01-15 16:38:00 | Digitalising old negatives and photos | notechyet (4479) | Press F1 |
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| 849042 | 2010-01-15 16:38:00 | Hello to you all I have a number of envelopes with photos and negatives. Can someone tell me a good way to digitalise the negatives? Is there a service available anywhere for this? Is the only way for the photos to manualy scan them? Any purpose build hardware(and not outragiously expensive) for either of them? I have an "old" flatbed scanner, but......:crying long hours..... thanks |
notechyet (4479) | ||
| 849043 | 2010-01-15 18:46:00 | Several ways, depends on how many you have and how much you want to spend. In no specific order......... Try a professional photographic outlet or supplier, they might do scanning for you or refer you. Get something like Nikon Coolscan. You can get scanners with built in or add on slide/negative scanners. You can attach a slide copier to the end of a camera len's. Personally, I would have a talk to some of the professional photograph outlets in your area, maybe even the local one hour place might do or if you have enough to warrant cost and it will be a on going project, maybe the Nikon Coolscan. |
PinoyKiw (9675) | ||
| 849044 | 2010-01-15 18:48:00 | Well yeah thats the only way, scan the photos . What other ways can you think of?? Take the negatives to a photo shop. They did develop them, before digital cameras were invented. Unless youre planning on buying a scanner with an adapter than can scan negatives. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 849045 | 2010-01-15 18:59:00 | What about this: Shoebox Scanning - Convert your photos to digital, painlessly (www.hanafins.co.nz)? It has various branches around New Zealand. | Jen (38) | ||
| 849046 | 2010-01-15 19:07:00 | One way used quite well here is to project them onto the screen the have a camera mounted on a tripod and photograph them saves loads of time and the results can be reasonably good | gary67 (56) | ||
| 849047 | 2010-01-15 19:24:00 | You can attach a slide copier to the end of a camera len's. I would have a talk to some of the professional photograph outlets in your area, My father uses the slide copier method and then converts them with Paintshop Pro Photo x2. He said the photo labs charge too much considering how many he has. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 849048 | 2010-01-15 19:36:00 | He said the photo labs charge too much considering how many he has. You are right in that the professional labs will charge well for the service so it would pay to shop around, some might offer discount for bulk. Or maybe try the Shoebox service mentioned in a earlier post, Hanafins, while not a top end photo and processing might be able to offer a more reasonable price. |
PinoyKiw (9675) | ||
| 849049 | 2010-01-15 19:47:00 | What about this: Shoebox Scanning - Convert your photos to digital, painlessly (www.hanafins.co.nz)? It has various branches around New Zealand. Jen That's sound very much like me. If I can calculate right it is 9c per photo to CD/DVD |
notechyet (4479) | ||
| 849050 | 2010-01-15 19:51:00 | Jen That's sound very much like me. If I can calculate right it is 9c per photo to CD/DVD I haven't looked at there website but if that is the price, that would be the way to go, maybe do just some for a start to check that the output is upto the standard you expect / require then go ahead and get everything done. |
PinoyKiw (9675) | ||
| 849051 | 2010-01-15 19:52:00 | Negative and Slide Digital Scanner $179-00 NZ. www.innovations.co.nz :) |
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