Floyd Loc: Misplaced Texan in Florence, Alabama

I can convert your slides to a CD and return the original slides to you. My scanner will convert 4 slides at a time and my charge is $.25/slide, plus $2.00 for each CD used, plus shipping.
Please contact me at pricefb@comcast.net or call me at 256-2759-3506.

Nikonfan70 Loc: Long Island

Can you do DVD?
Commercial houses charge .39 per slide and $6.00 per disc And .02 per slide for a thumbnail catalog.
Can you compete ?

Floyd Loc: Misplaced Texan in Florence, Alabama

Thanks for your inquiry. I only do slides. Working in Saudia Arabia, taking mission trips and other travels generated several hundred slides - all now on CD's and the original slides long discarded. Another interest is converting LP records and cassettes to CD's.

gessman Loc: Colorado

I know it's Christmas and I could go without saying this but since it's Christmas, I think it's the charitable thing to do.

I began burning CD's in 1987 and I have a slug of them that won't yield any images and it's been that way now for several years. There is a condition referred to as "rot" where all you need to do to lose what's on the cd is one tiny pinhole in the top of a cd. I would suggest that you get your images on something else besides cd's and dvd's. I'd suggest both external hard drives and thumb drives or solid state memory of some sort. Further, I would upload them to an online storage. A gmail.com account will allow you to email up to 7 gig to yourself and they'll sit on Google's servers until you want them. You can have several email accounts which are free.

Merry Christmas!

saichiez Loc: Beautiful Central Oregon

I know and have experienced this "rot" of which you speak. I inadvertently created this situation. I did not have a soft labeling pen to label a CD, and I stuck a post'it on the cd until I could get a pen. After three days, I got a pen. I pulled the post'it off the CD. A small sliver of the upper surface peeled off with the post'it.

Since that time, I have re-created this condition in my computer classes as testament to the weakness of CD/DVD archival processes.

It turns out that if you breech or scratch the upper surface of a CD OR DVD, you compromise the substrate layer underneath which is where the dye changing process of writing the file by the optical head is located.

If the optical read head sees one dot of light through the upper (label) layer the whole disk is corrupt and nothing can be read (or recovered) from the disk.

CD's and DVD's absolutely do NOT qualify as a means to archive (back up) data. JUST DON'T USE THEM.

Use memory based media... either solid state as in flash drives, or the best alternative at this point in time... a good external hard drive.

Sorry to get up in your business, but you would be much ahead to incorporate the price of a small flash drive into your pricing, and offer CD at one price, or an inexpensive flash drive for secure storage. In quantity, I imagine you can get them for less than 5 dollars for a GB flash drive.

Floyd Loc: Misplaced Texan in Florence, Alabama

Not a problem. I learned something I didn't know about image deterioration; however, slides on CD's can be transferred to some better storage than the original slides. I have taken the CD's, captured on my iMac the images I really wanted or those that needed a bit of work and they now reside on a backup hard drive. If a CD changes or loses the images,I've lost nothing.
Thanks again for the information and your comments.

pebo111 Loc: Eastern Oregon (Pendleton)

I do a fair amount of photo restoration and scanning old negatives. I dont use cds or dvds havent for a long time.
The external hard drives and the thumb drives are awsome. They dont corupt and I alwas back up in two places. They have some very large thumb drives that one can ship or mail to customers for very little. I am also a photographer and store all my pictures on external hard drives. Things that are beign worked with I keep on thumb drives.

Floyd Loc: Misplaced Texan in Florence, Alabama

I agree 100%; however, some folks have to, someway, get their slides into some format acceptable to thumb drives, hard drives, etc. I can do that either on to CD's temporarily or direct to a thumb drive.
Floyd

Flact George Loc: SE FL & SE CT

Floyd,

What is the file format you convert LP's to? Is it lossless?

George

PS First post; please excuse if I have the format or protocols wrong.

Floyd Loc: Misplaced Texan in Florence, Alabama

Thanks for your question. I use the "WAV" format.

Flact George Loc: SE FL & SE CT

Thanks, Floyd.

I assume you can output LPCM format.

Does the file produced include digital track titles in the INFO chunk?

I have hundreds (maybe more) of LP's up north, not all, but many of which I would like to have converted

I find I am spending all my time scanning old negs and slides (and occasional prints) with several different technologies so I am interested in getting some help with the tunes.

How does your service work?

What do you charge per LP?

George