wayne barnett Loc: Grants Pass, Oregon

Most of the above suggestions are spot on as far as the time that is involved. The one suggestion not given is the services at Costco. For 19.99 you get the first 62 slides or prints scanned (probably as separate services) and each one thereafter at 32 cents each. Delivered on a CD. Lot cheaper than doing it my self for someone else. Do not know their quality but have to think it is reasonable or they would not stay in business for this service. And of course all the time involved jobs of labeling and organizing comes after the digitization. And no I do not work for or have any connection with Costco except being a customer.

Just a thought.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Look up Legacy Box.
250 slides or prints about 90 bucks to scan.
If I remember right

don26812 Loc: South Bay of Los Angeles, CA

That is very good suggestion. Or possibly put together an online course or eBook that uses one of the popular scanners. FWIW

csmith4math

LegacyBox.com charges about $30 for 25 photos or slides, although they often go on sale for $15, Costco charges $0.32 per slide or photo, $20 minimum, and I'm sure there are many other shops with similar pricing.. (I've not used them, just looked it up online--others may be able to report on the quality of their work.) Unless this is all your time is worth, I'd refer them to one of these sites--or farm out the scanning and do post-processing for a fee. I'd be leery of "organizing" someone else's photos--too many ways to organize them easily leads to unhappiness with the results, unless you know when and where they were taken, who's in them, etc, and can get the customer to clearly define how he wants them organized.

RJWagons Loc: Lake Ridge Virginia

I have a great Epson scanner too but it is still time consuming. There is a service called "iMemories" that will scan slides for .49 each. I know nothing about their quality but you can google them for information.

Kuzano

Use the Scancafe site. They can be sent to India using the "Slumdog Child Exploitation" option.

aellman Loc: Boston MA

It's not practical for you to scan that many images. You could never get paid enough for your labor. There are automated
high speed scanning companies. Google them. Use them as a subcontractor, and add what you want to be paid as the "agent."

Bunko.T Loc: Western Australia.

Because it's a bit time consuming, an hourly rate plus any materials. Depending on whether you're a pro or amateur.
Every ones time is worth something. Even a token fee is fair.

maren

[quote=uniqueharm]Not sure if this belongs here but I keep getting requests for photo scanning jobs, not sure why but thought it might be something to look into. These are people looking for 500 to 1000 photos to be scanned and possibly organized.
Does anyone have any info as to what is involved with this, what kind of equipment is needed, what to charge?
Any info would be greatly appreciated.[/quo
I just had 372 slides done and it cost me 1000.00. But most of these slides were not the standard 35 mm slides. They had a square image rather than the standard rectangular image. Therefore each slide cost me $1.00 right off the bat because they had to be scanned individually. I started with 1200 family slides and selected near 400 after throwing out the really bad ones and the landscape ones that everyone takes on vacation, but never can tell where the pictures had been taken a year or two down the road, much less 40 years. We received 4 flash drives of the 372 photos and 4 DVD's. I can just slip them into my laptop and PP any of the real special ones. Cost a lot, but absolutely priceless.

maren

What a labor of love. Those projects are priceless for families.

Kuzano

My objective in stating the $25 per slide price was to set a price that would absolutely kill the desire to ever come to the OP again for a second slide.

I have a strong opinion that there is no possible scan system that improves an image from a slide and in fact always degrades any good image scanned. I arrived at this position after considerable practice of my own.

All flat bed scanners are at best disappointing to one's self. Let alone doing scans that satisfy others and charging for the service. Drum scanning is even better than "dedicated film scanners", yet still does not satisfy. If you want to print an image from a slide, wet chemistry is better than degrading the image first with anything less than a drum scan, and then attempting to recapture the degradation with digital printing, without a significant amount of post processing.

I finally asked myself, Why am I torturing myself to convert all my images from film to digital.... for what? Storage.

The only thing that finally made sense was to set up and shoot/copy my slides with at least a 24 Mp digital camera, a macro lens, and a backlit holder or light table. And then only those images that I intended to do something significant with.

Just don't see it after buying three Epson V series scanners, One Nikon Super Coolscan V, and a Canon flatbed, and spending endless hours getting unsatisfactory results. 50 years of photography in film and digital, and 30 years consulting on PC computers, with the efforts spent scanning all for absolutely fruitless return. No Thanks.... $25 per slide and no guarantee of satisfaction if you don't mind!!!

Harry46 Loc: Central Texas

Sometimes it is just simple nostalgia. I have paid to have over 1200 slides converted to digital because, at 71 years of age, memories from the 1970s are important to ME. If they are digital, I can look at them again and again. I no longer have a slide projector but I can have a family night with grandchildren and show them some the places I have been, remember some of the friends that I had back then. So, to me, it was worth it to pay for those slides to be digitized. When I am dead and gone, maybe someone will want to look at them or maybe they will just be deleted but they are special to me at the moment.

GreyOwl40 Loc: Quebec City

Kuzano, I fully agree that there is no scanning system that will ever improve upon a slide. And, yes, the results I get from many scanned slides are less than what I had hoped for. But then, again, most of those images are not ones that I ever intend to print. What I do get is an ability to view the image quickly, to edit that image, and to share that image with whomever I wish. Before digitization, that was impossible. I have kept many of my slides, even though they are scanned, for the reasons outlined and the worry I have that maybe even in digitized form, maintaining a semi permanent record may be wishful thinking. I have inserted USB sticks, on which I have recorded images, into my desktop, only to be informed that the stick must be reformatted. Copying the slide with at least a 24 mp camera is, as you do, probably the best way to properly digitize a treasured image.

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

I have done one or two at a time for friends....It is VERY time consuming. I started to my own and it is so time consuming, I decided to stop.........It takes on average 15 min per slid / negative with minimum editing. That's $25 each minimum at $100 an hour, and that's cheap. Most people won't pay that. Costco does it for $19.99 for the first 62 slides, the $.32 each after that. Thats on dvd, no editing I think.

RolandDieter

Are you scanning prints or negatives or slides? If prints the Epson FastFoto FF-640 is faster then H and does a great job. Load the prints in related batches and give each batch a file name and you also have them organized.