Bulk Scanning Services - Help Needed

Jessops offer a scan service now. Photo archive or something I think it is called. I don't know what the quality is like as I've always just scanned my own as it is much cheaper.
 
thanks Suz,

had a look at jessops and they seem very expensive for the quality - but i get the feeling there is not much competition in the UK
 
sheridant said:
I want to scan a lot of old photos

This service in the states looks perfect - but the don't do international

https://www.scancafe.com/about-us

Is there a similar service offering a similar price and quality in the UK?

Thanks
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What is it precisely that you're looking for?

If you just want a load of old pictures scanned and put onto a DVD (or similar) then I'll take a look at it for you - just drop me a pm with details of how many, what sizes and what resolution you're after and I'll work out a price and lead-time.
 
thanks steve - I might take you up on that - what kit would you be using to do it?
 
sheridant said:
thanks steve - I might take you up on that - what kit would you be using to do it?
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I've got three flatbed scanners (2xA4 & 1xA3) that can do up to 4800dpi scans and a willing (?) assistant who needs to earn his keep :D The images are normally saved as .tif but it can be anything you like except raw, of course, and we don't do any editing except to straighten them up if they were a little crooked on the scanner. If some of the photos have defects (i.e. folds, tears, etc.) then we can attempt to clean them up, if you want.

The usual process is to load as many photos as we can onto the A3 scanner and then scan them individually, save them onto a pc, apply any straightening needed, crop to that actual picture (so as to remove the small border we leave to allow for straightening) and save as a final .tif. Straightening is normally done whilst the next image is being scanned, saving us time.

The alternative is to re-photograph them but I find this takes longer as you have to be very precise in setting up the camera, lighting and original photo - and redo that for each photo size. The scanners are much quicker even at their highest scan resolution.
 
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