RE: [OT} Scanning 35mm negatives?

["Jim" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I went through the process of investigating scanners about 12 months
ago,
looking at 200+ films I wanted to digitise.

Bureau scanning was out the question on cost grounds so I ended up getting
=
a
Nikon 5000 dedicated scanner. Certainly not cheap (IIRC about =A3600) but
t=
he
results are stunning and well worth the money.

If you only have 10-20 films, on a pound-for-quality basis, I'd have them
done professionally. No scanner for =A3160 is going to give you anywhere
ne=
ar
the standard you will get from a scanning company. All companies I looked
a=
t
had different prices for different scan resolutions, which equates to time
on their part as it takes longer at the higher quality. What you need will
come down to your intended use.



Jim


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Ian Lowe
Sent: 29 December 2007 17:25
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] [OT} Scanning 35mm negatives?


Just before christmas we got lucky and found a set of the sample shots of
our wedding photos - just the prints, no negatives... but still good as we
had no photos of our wedding otherwise!

The local "agfa photo centre" in Hamilton managed to work bloody
wonders
with them - giving us a proper set of digital images from the prints.=20

Basically, our lives before the digital photography age might as well have
never existed - whilst we have a wee sidebar gadget in vista which randomly
pops up photos from the Gallery, and a photo screensaver on the kitchen PC
which does the same, the "pre-digital"=20
era photos live in the loft.

soo...

I'm in the market now for a scanner which can handle 35mm negatives amd let
me get these old shots into a more useful (copyable, backed up, editable
an=
d
so on) format.

I'm not convinced about dedicated scanners, and my budget for this is not
huge - at the back of my head, I know that I can get this done for about =
=A38
a spool, and I have maybe ten or twenty films to get done..

advice? suggested models? bad idea?