bad daddy Loc: Chicago-South Side

I have dozens of old family albums, filled with photos from film.
I'd like to convert them to digital format for posterity.
Is there any scanner which will scan multiple photos of multiple sizes (4x6,8x10 etc)?

Dick Z. Loc: Downers Grove IL

bad daddy, Check out the Epson Perfection V550 Photo Scanner. I believe it will do everything you want and you can make enlargements up to 17x22 inches. :) :)

jjohnpdq Loc: Lincoln AR. USA

Epson V500 vs. V600
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/2943611

Buckstop39 Loc: Collin County Texas

I use an Epson All in one Workforce 630 to scan old photos with. It will do legal size I think. I usually do one large print by itself. If I have a group of smaller prints, I put several around the glass and do one scan. The scanner will create a BMP file with the scans. I custom set the DPI to color and 300 DPI when scanning. Even the Black and white one using color scan...allows for them to be used as sRGB settings to work on them later. I use Photoshop CS4 to crop and turn the selected pic from a group to the upright position for work in CS 4. Then save the crop as a jpg file. Then re-open the bmp file in CS 4 and crop the next one etc. Once you have a group saved, then delete the bmp file.I have done thousands of prints this way...long task ahead for you though. Especially if doing the PP on them as needed. Hope this makes sense as I am not a good technical writer. Good luck.

MikeT.

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

Any flatbed scanner will scan multiple photos, up to the limits of the physical bed size itself. The problem you get doing this is that all the photos you scan will come out in a single scan, like in a collage. If you want scans of individual photos, you will have to do them one at a time. Any of the Epson scanners from the V300 up will do an excellent job at the task you have described.

bad daddy Loc: Chicago-South Side

thanks for the replies!
I have been using an all-in-one Epson unit.
I guess I've been looking for an easy way out of handling each photo/file on an individual basis.
The only thing I know for sure is that a scanner of some sort is a "must have" for not only photos, but for much of everyday life.
thanks again.

hfb46 Loc: UK

Check this out http://forums.adobe.com/message/6124620. Hope it helps.

b.dehautdessert

Just get a Epson V600. Epson has sales on scanners all the time, and they have a refurbished center too. I originally got my V600 plus a 2 year extended warranty for a total of $180, brand new. You can also pick up a good HP scanner at full retail for around $200, but it uses florescent, not a LED bar like the V600 which I prefer. I use all my scanners commercially and the florescents eventually dim while the LED bars haven't yet. I did have a mechanical failure on my original V600 at the 19th month of use but the extended warranty covered it and they shipped me a rebuilt which works fine. Doubt you are going to do the massive amount of scans I do, so you may want to skip the extended warranty. :) It will do everything you said you wanted to scan, it saves in bitmap, tif, jpg, to the directory you want it to, and has excellent controls via software that you can use to edit pics in preview mode. Been doing this since late 2004, early 2005 for a local camera store and I've seen it all and tried a little of everything including all-in-ones. P.S.: If you have something bigger than the scanning bed, just do several scans and stitch them together with photomerge. Easy as pie. Just remember to have each scan overlap the other so the software (photoshop and others) has something to compare in order to assemble them into one picture.

bad daddy Loc: Chicago-South Side

interesting stuff
thanks

b.dehautdessert

You're welcome! :)