Scanning Tons of Photos: Solution?
on 11.18.04, 03:40pm in life • comments (2)
One project that I’ve been wanting to tackle while I’m on vacation in December is to finally get all of our old pictures into digital format. My problem (which I imagine is one that alot of people have) is that I have hundreds (if not thousands) of old photos, and using a traditional flatbed scanner to scan, crop, etc. is just not feasible.
Does anyone have any suggestions or comments on ‘bulk scanning’? My current scanner doesn’t have a ‘photo feeder’, any recommendations?
Bruce (November 19, 2004 @ 6:18 am)
I have a photo-feeder scanner you can borrow or buy. I got it on e-bay, used it to scan in every picture I own, and now its just sitting in my closet.
Richard Tallent (December 9, 2004 @ 10:32 pm)
If you have a the negatives and it’s mostly 35mm, you may want to look into having them “developed” to PhotoCD. You get the equivalent of around a 6.3MP image, multiple resolutions on the same CD, and a much higher-quality scan than you’ll get from a consumer-grade scanner.