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10/20/2006 08:48:34 AM · #1 |
| I found the advice everyone gave about MPIX really helpfull, sent some old scanned black and white family pics in and they turned out better than i could have hoped for. Unfortunately they don't put photo negatives onto cds. I know Walmart can do it but their quality is really awful, the images are over-saturated. Does anybody have any recommendations? |
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10/20/2006 10:44:46 AM · #2 |
Walmart probably auto-processes the file before they burn the CD. Do you have a Sam's club there? It's kind of similar to walmart, you need a membership card to buy stuff there though but I think you can get a trial first.
They scanned slides for me and didn't process them at all, which is fine because I can do it later.
You might ask WM to burn the original files, but I don't know if they would do it. The people at the 1-hr-photo at this walmart don't impress me at all. |
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10/20/2006 10:55:58 AM · #3 |
| depending on how many you have to do .. buying a (used) negitive scanner may be economical ... |
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10/20/2006 10:56:17 AM · #4 |
My experience has been that quality film or slide scans are expensive. You can get crummy ones at a decent price, though. I bought a couple of Konica Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400 II Film Scanners and get excellent results with them!
If you only have a few to do, it may be a better value to pay someone to do them. If you have a lot to do (I have about 10,000), then you probably will want to buy your own scanner.
Good luck!
JD
This scanner costs around $600 and works great.
Here are a few specs:
High-performance 5400 dpi 3-line color CCD delivers 42.2 megapixels
Film Expert Algorithm for improving color reproduction of negative film
Quick Scan System for a faster workflow: 25 seconds per frame
16-bit A/D conversion (dynamic range of 4.8)
High-speed auto-focus
Auto Loading Index automatically starts index scanning when film holder is loaded
2 13/16" W x 6 1/2" H x 13 5/8" D
Includes AC adapter, 35mm film holder, slide mount holder, USB cable, reset tool, DiMAGE scan software and Photoshop Elements 2.0 software
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10/23/2006 09:29:09 AM · #5 |
| Thanks to all of you for the advice, i will try out Sam's i have a membership card. If that fails I will then investigate a scanner, they are my wedding photo negatives so i want it perfect. In the meantime, if anyone finds a company of similar quality to MPIX let me know, im sure everyones got good old negativeS which they want to bring back to life! |
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10/23/2006 09:37:53 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by rdesai:
I found the advice everyone gave about MPIX really helpfull, sent some old scanned black and white family pics in and they turned out better than i could have hoped for. Unfortunately they don't put photo negatives onto cds. I know Walmart can do it but their quality is really awful, the images are over-saturated. Does anybody have any recommendations? |
You may want to double check with MPIX about CD creation. If you sent in negatives and MPIX scanned these - digital files were created which could be copied to a CD. |
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10/23/2006 09:58:56 AM · #7 |
| Costco currently scans negatives to CD for $0.29 (minimum of 10), and you get the equivalent of a 6MP image. |
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10/23/2006 10:05:58 AM · #8 |
Another option for "scanning" transparencies (negative or positive) is to use a camera to copy them. Getting set up to do so in an efficient manner is not trivial, but the results can be very good indeed.
A few years ago I started copying 3500 color 35mm slides with a Nikon LS-30 film scanner. The process was slow, but the quality was pretty good. Very dense originals required multiple scans though, taking up to 10 minutes per slide (!). For the last 1000 or so, I switched to duplicating them with a Canon 10D and a modified "slide duplicator" from the 1970s. I removed the glass element from the duplicator and modified the mount (it originally was intended to mount directly to an SLR body). I instead attached it to the end of a Canon 100/2.8 Macro, set the camera/lens/duplicator combination up on a tripod and placed a compact fluorescent bulb behind the diffuser screen of the duplicator. I could then shoot as many as 3 or 4 slides per minute. Exposure changes were occasionally necessary, but in general the camera was far more capable of handling dense transparencies than the scanner. The scanner was admittedly not the best available, but still cost $700 when I purchased it.
Of course, after shooting a card full of images, I still had to upload and process them all. Processing was neither faster nor slower than for the scanned images. Overall, it was probably twice as fast to duplicate them with the camera. |
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06/20/2009 10:38:30 PM · #9 |
Yes, I just bumped a 2.5 year old thread. :)
If a scanner is not an option, what ARE some options at this point?
I found a site (BritePix.com) that does it, but I've never heard of them. |
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