Johnny boy Loc: COCOA FL

Has anyone had any experence with this or with acompany called Scan Craft.
I was going to try to do it myself. After reading about what it takes in time and money I'm looking else were ?
Thank you for any info on this matter John

Musket Loc: ArtBallin'

I scan my own using VueScan and my flatbed scanner. I send my E6 to a local lab ask for them to not mount or cut my negs. Ill cut at home, to fit them into my negative holder.

For old kodachrome slides, I just lay them on the flatbed and scan that way. Your scanner at home needs to be able to scan film, if not, you cannot scan transparencies of any kind.

I have only ever used a prof service once, and it was a local lab I had scan about 800+ Kodachrome slides, that was because I was lazy and did not own a scanner at the time.

Since I shoot a lot of slide film now, I scan it at home as I dev it. That way I dont get behind on it.

bobm Loc: Albuquerque, NM

I've just started scanning my old slides using a Stratford Labs scanner and its included Photo Impressions scanning software. I'm impressed with the results and it also scans 35mm print negatives.

I used to have a darkroom and used all the filters on my enlarger to get the print color right so I was really impressed with sliding the negative in, clicking the save button and seeing the magically color balanced photo appear at 2500dpi! This scanner cost me $ 4 at a yard sale but I've seen it and others on amazon too.

Frapha Loc: Tulsa, Oklahoma

I purchased a good quality Epson photo scanner a couple years ago with the intent to scan a few thousand slides, prints & old 35mm negatives. Scanner does a great job, but found it to be slow and VERY labor intensive. After a lot of research, I decided to use the services of ScanCafe - http://www.scancafe.com/ They had very good pricing and I sent them about 2800 negatives on my first order. I was exceptionally pleased with the result I got and the turn-around time. Subsequently sent several hundred slides and was equally pleased with the results – I’d use them again without hesitation.

In the current issue of Shutterbug Magazine, I read a short item about http://www.scanmyphotos.com/ -- perhaps another good alternative. Good luck with whatever you decide to do.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

There were a few other comments on this thread: http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-132562-1.html

I'll repeat mine as his scans with virtually no PP were very well done: Look at an 'SVP PS9700' on Amazon. My father just scanned 40+ years of slides to JPEG and the results are great. (but time consuming...)

clansman Loc: wendover,england

just a note to say I bought a CanonScan 9000F Mark 11 recently and it does slides, pix, documents, the lot. Not too time-consuming and the results are excellent. Software therein helpful too.

DaveMM Loc: Port Elizabeth, South Africa

As a much faster alternative to a scanner - I made a light box with a slide holder and a focussing rail to mount the camera. I initially used a 350D with a borrowed Canon 100 macro lens, but had to give that back, so now use my 550D with 55-250 lens and three extensions tubes.

This gives very good results, and provides a significant time saving over scanning. A slide every 10 seconds instead of a minute scanning.

I have a fuller write up prepared when I sent this suggestion of an UHH discussion in 2012, which I can send to anyone interested.

The picture gives some idea. Sorry for the quality - for obvious reasons I couldn't use my DSLR so had to use my wife's smart phone!