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February 8, 2007
Digitizing Photos?
Like most people "our age", we've got a bunch (at least many hundred, possibly a couple thousand) of photo's (and negatives) sitting in boxes. Lately I've had the urge to get them into the digital domain so they can join the "rest" of our pictures.
Anyone reading this done so? Any suggestions on ways (not) to approach the problem?
Posted by dberger at February 8, 2007 6:40 PM
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I've tried to do it using a scanner, but it's very time consuming. Just the scanning process takes about 1 minute per image if you're lucky. If you're willing to go with focus presets etc. to reduce the time, it can go faster, but quality suffers. I found I averaged about 1 image every 10-15 minutes, though, in order to properly crop and adjust the image. This was some years ago, so it was hard to get enough memory into a machine to make the process smooth. Still, I don't recommend doing it yourself.
There are labs that do it for you. My dad did this with large quantities of film, and the results were decent. Better than letting the originals worsen by a decade or so until you get to it yourself, if ever.
Posted by: Claes-Fredrik Mannby at February 9, 2007 9:17 AM