Slide scanning

[Doozer]

Hey, does anyone have any recommendations for places that can digitize old slides? Wife is going through her parent's archives and there are probably hundreds of slides that she's looking to get scanned.

Thanks

[TomcoPDR]

What about buying a slide scan machine? $100 ish on Amazon

[Doozer]

I don't even have close to that kind of time. We actually already have a slide scanner, but it only does one at a time. No photos in the world are worth manually loading a slide scanner 1 by 1 for hundreds of slides!

[AndyL]

Last I looked it was about 20$ a slide to pay someone to do it one slide at a time

Hundreds? That's it? Drop the scanner off and I'll do it 3$ a slide - post processing is your baby.

Lol - I inquired needing 20,000 or so scanned - decided to sort out what I wanted first

[flipstah]

I think London Drugs does it for you. The Mount Royal location.

They're the only ones in the city that can still develop slide film for me too.

I'd call in first though.

[taemo]

I think there's a guy in kijiji that is willing to do the service

Are the slides mounted or on sleeves?
if mounted, then the process will take longer if you use a film scanner.

have you considered scanning them yourself with your iphone and a tablet as a light table?
you can build your own scanning table easily.
scan 10-20 pictures a day instead of doing all at once.

made one for myself using lego parts

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I think London Drugs does it for you. The Mount Royal location.

They're the only ones in the city that can still develop slide film for me too.

I'd call in first though.

I love shooting slides too and LD doesn't develop in-house anymore, they mail everything to Vancouver now and can take a couple of weeks for the roll to come back

[jwslam]

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Hundreds? That's it? Drop the scanner off and I'll do it 3$ a slide - post processing is your baby.

I'll do it for $2.50 per

[Ferio_vti]

As an engineer, I have lots of time too. I'll do them for you, $2 a slide.

[Doozer]

Well you guys have all been exceptionally helpful, as expected.

We already found a place that would do it for $2.5 per, but I thought that was ridiculously expensive. Thanks for the suggestions taemo, but I doubt my wife is going to build her own rig and I'm certainly not. That's a good question about sleeves; I think most of the slides are individuals that are already plunked into the slide decks. I haven't opened each box yet though.

We might do them manually ourselves if we pared the volume down. But she's already spent the last few months going through boxes of printed photos from as far back as the early 1900s, she doesn't want to start over again on the all the boxes of slides we have.

[AndyL]

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I'll do it for $2.50 per

Impossible! 3 is the key man!

[msommers]

Maybe an ACAT student would do it for less than $2.50/ea.

[Go4Long]

The race to the bottom in the photography industry just found a new place to go...lol

[flipstah]

Unless you have a quick loader system to scan film slides, $2.50/slide is fair.

It's annoying to scan these fuckers lol.

[blitz]

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The race to the bottom in the photography industry just found a new place to go...lol

By the end people will be scanning all these slides free just for exposure.

[Go4Long]

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By the end people will be scanning all these slides free just for exposure.

"I give all my shots to the jet teams for exposure." - stuff you hear at airshows.

[Doozer]

A couple updates.

Turns out my wife grossly underestimated the number of slides. Looks like close to 2000. Yikes.

She also found that Costco does it. They outsource them somewhere, something like $20 for the first 50, and then .32 each after that, but there were some reviews online that had issues with the quality. For .32 each that wouldn't surprise me at all. She's still contemplating buying a machine and doing it herself, but I said she can do that in her own apartment because I'm fucking leaving if she thinks she's spending the next 6 months scanning slides all night.

Especially considering they're really just for posterity. I'd bet 80% of them are scenery and similar items that aren't even wanted, and 99% will probably be never looked at again, even if they're relevant pics. That's the thing with old pictures and slides - no one really USES them, they just like to know that they have them.

[blitz]

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A couple updates.Especially considering they're really just for posterity. I'd bet 80% of them are scenery and similar items that aren't even wanted, and 99% will probably be never looked at again, even if they're relevant pics. That's the thing with old pictures and slides - no one really USES them, they just like to know that they have them.

High grade them before you scan them, put them on an iphone with a white screen and only pull out the ones she wants.

[Doozer]

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High grade them before you scan them, put them on an iphone with a white screen and only pull out the ones she wants.

Not worth it. For 2000 pictures, if she's going to look at each one of them before converting, we might as well just convert them ourselves when we look at each one.