A Big thanks for all who responded. I big issue do I want to set at a scanner and scan maybe 500 pics. Or would I prefer being outside shooting. Anyway great information. A local photographer told be a company called Scan Cafe which will convert prints into ZJump Drive for around $180 for 500 prints. I plan to check this out too. again thanks
lmdavid wrote:
A Big thanks for all who responded. I big issue do I want to set at a scanner and scan maybe 500 pics. Or would I prefer being outside shooting. Anyway great information. A local photographer told be a company called Scan Cafe which will convert prints into ZJump Drive for around $180 for 500 prints. I plan to check this out too. again thanks
Beware the relationship between price and quality. You have to decide what quality you expect...
Fast, Good, or Cheap... Pick any two.
Fast and Good = Expensive
Good and Cheap = Slow
Cheap and Fast = Poor quality
My Epson V700 works really well. It is factory reconditioned, purchased from the Epson store. Significant savings. KJN
TriX wrote:
You don’t need to spend that much. The Epson v600 will do an excellent job - B&H has it for $229.
Second that. Excellent scanner, especially for the price.
TriX wrote:
You don’t need to spend that much. The Epson v600 will do an excellent job - B&H has it for $229.
I use the V600 and am very happy with the results doing just what you describe.
I agree that one of the Epson flatbed scanners should serve you well.
Making digital copies from PRINTS, the $229 V600 should do fine. It's less capable when scanning film.
For film.... especially medium or large format... the $899 V800 or the $1149 V850 flat bed scanners would be a better choice.
For 35mm and smaller format film... best results are from a high quality, dedicated film scanner such as current Plustek or Pacific Image (or older Minolta and Nikon).
For large numbers of mounted 35mm slides... current Braun and Pacific Image bulk load scanners can be a good choice. (Older Nikon with bulk loader accessory can work well, too.)
Whatever you choose, if you wish you could possibly buy used to save some money. Also, once you complete the scanning work, you probably could sell the scanner and recoup much of your initial cost. Folks appear to do that all the time. It's probably why there always seems to be a thriving market of used scanners.
"Trivia: Epson is an abbreviation for "son of electronic printer" in Japanese!" Hmmmm.... Why do I think you just made that up?
amfoto1 wrote:
I agree that one of the Epson flatbed scanners should serve you well.
Making digital copies from PRINTS, the $229 V600 should do fine. It's less capable when scanning film.
For film.... especially medium or large format... the $899 V800 or the $1149 V850 flat bed scanners would be a better choice.
For 35mm and smaller format film... best results are from a high quality, dedicated film scanner such as current Plustek or Pacific Image (or older Minolta and Nikon).
For large numbers of mounted 35mm slides... current Braun and Pacific Image bulk load scanners can be a good choice. (Older Nikon with bulk loader accessory can work well, too.)
Whatever you choose, if you wish you could possibly buy used to save some money. Also, once you complete the scanning work, you probably could sell the scanner and recoup much of your initial cost. Folks appear to do that all the time. It's probably why there always seems to be a thriving market of used scanners.
"Trivia: Epson is an abbreviation for "son of electronic printer" in Japanese!" Hmmmm.... Why do I think you just made that up?
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I just saw a B&H ad with the V600 going for $159.99
burkphoto wrote:
I’ll second that. For home use, spending more would be only marginally better.
The V800 has more dynamic range but it is over $1000.
Another alternative is to copy photos with a macro lens and dSLR or MILC, mounted on a copy stand and lit evenly.
In have a question regarding copying images using a Canon EOS 5DMKIV using the Canon F2.8 100MM USM IS lens would be the best set up for Photos, Slides, and Color and B&W negatives to obtain the best quality 1:1 digital capyure?
Thanks in Gene.
Epson V550 is excellent, and at $175 about $50 less than the V600 (unless you can actually find the V600 on sale somewhere.)
Scan quality is the same, but the V600 has ICE for prints, the V550 only for film. Since I mostly scan slides and negatives, I didn't need that feature. And if I do need to do any restoration/retouching I prefer to do it myself in Photoshop anyway.
When I search for V600 on B&H it comes up at $220, so $160 would be a great deal.
Also both can differentiate multiple images placed on the bed at the same time and save each as a separate file.
MDI Mainer wrote:
Epson V550 is excellent, and at $175 about $50 less than the V600 (unless you can actually find the V600 on sale somewhere.)
Like I already posted, B&H has the V600 on sale for $160
lmdavid wrote:
With the new year comes another project. I have numerous prints from my parents, grandparents, and other family photographs that I would like to convert to a digital file. This way I can save them and share them with my two siblings and three children. I am looking for quality where I could make some photograph albums and print them. So not looking at printing large pics but reasonable to max of maybe 11x14.
My local camera dealer runs specials where they will convert prints to digital from time to time but I was thinking of purchasing a nice scanner and maybe break even or even save some money.
Do any fellow members have suggestions. Want to spend between $400 to 800 if even possible. thanks
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Do you have a printer now? Depending on which one, you may have an acceptable scanner already.
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