newseum wrote:
X-mas time! My wife wants to get her father something to digitize all of the slides that he has(hundreds). I explained to her that many folks offer the service for a very good price. Just send in the slides and they take care of the rest. But she has a good point in the fact that he is retired and has lots of spare time and of course likes tech toys. I have a canon flatbed that can do slides and of course have it plugged into CS4. On the other hand my father-in-law has trouble with getting too complicated with software and the like( I have had to \"fix\" his computer a few times).
What scanner would you folks recommend for around 100 bucks. It can be dedicated for slides. I\'m not sure what photo editing software he uses, but last I looked it was Paint Shop Pro (JASC?).
I wonder a bit if at that price range sending it in might not be better, especially if he lots of K64 which are. People often spend an order of magnitude more than that on equipment, or more, to try to do scanning well, especially Kodachrome. But maybe something could do a quick little decent enough job.
It takes a lot of time to scan slides. I think it may take me 10 years to finish.
Nov 29, 2011 at 01:23 PM
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