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Author:  snowyweston [ Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:56 pm ]
Post subject:  Digitally archiving prints/negatives
As per the title really, what's the best (read: cheapest/quickest/simplest) way?

My bestmate's given me an awesome get out clause for years of shortchanging her on her birthdays by asking I do her copies of the 1000's of photos we took together at uni.
Author:  finlay666 [ Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:17 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Digitally archiving prints/negatives
Film scanner? I think they are £40 or so tops
Author:  snowyweston [ Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Digitally archiving prints/negatives
Will they be any good? And does the age of the negative affect the quality? I'm not after massive (ie. 300, 600dpi) scans but it's still a concern.
Author:  ProfessorF [ Wed Aug 18, 2010 11:09 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Digitally archiving prints/negatives
Depends on what sort of quality you're after.
A £40 scanner will give you something, but as for a good scanner I'd recommend the Epson V700. It's on my shopping list, certainly.
Author:  timark_uk [ Thu Aug 19, 2010 7:07 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Digitally archiving prints/negatives
You can get adaptors that fit on the front end of lenses that hold negs, you then take a photograph of the neg, et viola, a digital, archival copy.
I can't imagine they'd be that much, though a £40 scanner may be cheaper.

Mark
Author:  snowyweston [ Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:10 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Digitally archiving prints/negatives
ProfessorF wrote:
Depends on what sort of quality you're after.
A £40 scanner will give you something, but as for a good scanner I'd recommend the Epson V700. It's on my shopping list, certainly.
For a price scale factor of 10 I'd expect it to!

Hmmm. The thing is if I buy a negative scanner I still may be short of doing the lot and will first have to go through my negs. to see I've got one for every photo (I doubt it) - and that'll take a fair amount of time in itself. :?

I may just have a play with my flatmate's flatbed on the weekend to see how long doing 3No. 6x4 prints-to-an-A4 @150dpi will take (realistically)... of course there'll then be the p'chop exercise after that.... hmmm.
Author:  HeatherKay [ Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:27 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Digitally archiving prints/negatives
The Epson is good. We got one for the Bat Cave.

A word of warning, though. Don't expect it to be quick. A full plate of 35mm transparencies can take a fair few hours for the machine to scan and the software to clean up. The results are well worth waiting for, mind.
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