pendennis wrote:
The major consideration you need to make, is the future utilization of a purchased scanner. For a one-time scan, it's likely cheaper to have a third party do it. The Kodak scanner referenced runs @ $400 on Amazon.
Even if the cost of the scans is more than the scanner, the value of your time has to be taken into consideration.
From what I found online for a third party conversion of film to digital, the charge is per foot of film. What I have seen the average is around $0.25 per foot or $12.50 per 50 feet of film. The OP states he has 35 "cans" of film. He did not mention the ength of the films per can. I am guessing that each "can" is perhaps a five inch reel which holds about 200 feet of film making the "professional conversion," rather expensive at about $1,700 plus the shipping and handling charges. A DYI machine for $400 is a bargain in my opinion.