Need reccomendations for a service to scan old slides and copy them to a disk or drive
May 17, 2020 14:27:09 #
I am trying to help an old friend who wants to have her grandfather's old slides copied to a disk or drive. She wanted to know if I could do it, but I had to decline. I just don't have the right equipment to make it less than a cumbersome task.
Does anyone out there in Hogland have a suggestion of a service to do a good job of copying and correcting for fading, scratches, etc. She has gone through them with an old slide viewer and put them in chronological order already, as I suggested to her. She did this with her grandfather's Kodaslide Stereo Viewer. Determination! She is 60, so that would make her grandfather's slides quite old.
Does anyone out there in Hogland have a suggestion of a service to do a good job of copying and correcting for fading, scratches, etc. She has gone through them with an old slide viewer and put them in chronological order already, as I suggested to her. She did this with her grandfather's Kodaslide Stereo Viewer. Determination! She is 60, so that would make her grandfather's slides quite old.
May 17, 2020 14:29:53 #
At Scan Cafe, Expect to pay about .19 per slide. Legacy Box will be more but is certainly one of the best since it is advertised all the time on Rush Limbaugh's show.
The first step before you even think about fixing the fading, etc. is to get them quality scanned.
The first step before you even think about fixing the fading, etc. is to get them quality scanned.
May 17, 2020 14:45:08 #
Fotoartist wrote:
At Scan Cafe, Expect to pay about .19 per slide. Legacy Box will be more but is certainly one of the best since it is advertised all the time on Rush Limbaugh's show.
The first step before you even think about fixing the fading, etc. is to get them quality scanned.
The first step before you even think about fixing the fading, etc. is to get them quality scanned.
Really appreciate the quick reply, I'll check them both out online before giving her a recommendation. She is not into any type of photography at all, so really needs help. Didn't want to just send her to a camera store or big box store which would add in a third party fee.
May 18, 2020 10:00:01 #
berchman
Loc: South Central PA
griffzky wrote:
I am trying to help an old friend who wants to hav... (show quote)
ScanCafe. I have used them and I was happy with the results. Here is a review:
http://www.digitalphotos101.com/scancafe-review-quality-choice-for-cheap-photo-scanning.htm
May 18, 2020 14:32:31 #
http://digmypics.com/ I sent them boxes of old slides (nearly 11,000 slides) and they did a great job, quickly, at a good price. Some were steroscopic slides from the mid-1950s and they handled them as well.
May 18, 2020 14:37:14 #
I have many Carousel slide trays full of old slides I'd like to digitize. I'd really like to find a vendor that accepts them in the trays and puts them into files by tray name. Does anyone do that?
May 18, 2020 14:48:12 #
JKaye
Loc: Chicago
I have taken slides, vhs tape and 8mm film to Costco with excellent service and reasonable prices.
May 18, 2020 14:53:50 #
David in Dallas wrote:
I have many Carousel slide trays full of old slides I'd like to digitize. I'd really like to find a vendor that accepts them in the trays and puts them into files by tray name. Does anyone do that?
DigMyPics will do that. All the slides we sent in carousels came back in the carousels, and the digitized photos from each carousel were in folders/directories named "Tray1", "Tray2", etc. (A sample image from my slides from DigMyPics is attached, as named by DigMyPics)
May 18, 2020 15:11:10 #
Thanks, Rational1. I just sent a request for information to them. I've got more than 1000 slides to convert and don't want to do it myself.
May 18, 2020 15:39:10 #
berchman wrote:
ScanCafe. I have used them and I was happy with the results. Here is a review:
http://www.digitalphotos101.com/scancafe-review-quality-choice-for-cheap-photo-scanning.htm
http://www.digitalphotos101.com/scancafe-review-quality-choice-for-cheap-photo-scanning.htm
Thanks everyone, she is going to use DigMyPic. As usual the forum came through.
May 18, 2020 17:17:20 #
griffzky wrote:
I am trying to help an old friend who wants to hav... (show quote)
Before you commit to any service know what kind of file are you going to receive. If you plan on restoration you will need TIFF or another uncompressed 16-bit format. Many only return jpg files and all are 8-bit compressed images.
May 18, 2020 19:01:48 #
petego4it
Loc: NY
will appreciate learning answer to BobHartung post above re: the two options posted here....thanks.
May 18, 2020 21:27:43 #
Used scan cafe for about 4500 Kodachrome (which doesn’t fade-in my experience). Unloaded about 55 Carousels (89 and 140) after projecting them to pick out the ones I didn’t want to scan. Boxed them up with 2x2 pieces of cardboard between groups. Got highest resolution 4000dpi and had them scanned to a hard drive.
Come on David of Dallas- shouldn’t take more than a couple of hours. I still have an Ektachrome projector so if you want to come down to Georgetown you could go thru them pretty quickly😎
Come on David of Dallas- shouldn’t take more than a couple of hours. I still have an Ektachrome projector so if you want to come down to Georgetown you could go thru them pretty quickly😎
May 18, 2020 22:11:18 #
Drledft1 wrote:
I still have a Carousel projector. Haven't used it in many years so don't know if it still works. Would like to find a way to directly couple it to a camera, but have not found a way.Come on David of Dallas- shouldn’t take more than a couple of hours. I still have an Ektachrome projector so if you want to come down to Georgetown you could go thru them pretty quickly😎
I got an answer back from DigMyPics and they do handle slides in trays, putting the images into folders named the same as the tray boxes. I will give this some thought.
May 19, 2020 09:47:05 #
BobHartung wrote:
Before you commit to any service know what kind of file are you going to receive. If you plan on restoration you will need TIFF or another uncompressed 16-bit format. Many only return jpg files and all are 8-bit compressed images.
Excellent advice Bob, and if it were my project, that would definitely be important. I would be doing a lot of work on them afterward. However, my friend just wants to be able to share these family treasures with her six siblings. None of them will be doing anything with them except reliving wonderful old memories.
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