Getting old film negatives onto disc.

[edthesock]

Where would be the best place to go for this service? I got tons of old negatives from a recent trip home and would like to have them on a disc so I can put them on my puter and photobucket. Any recommendations in the London area?

 

[Harvey_nikon]

how many are you talking about?

 

[edthesock]

2 perhaps 3 hundred negatives but will only want about half.

 

[GHP]

I recently decided to do the same thing, with negs (35mm and 120) and with a load of old 35mm trannys too !
I used an Epson scanner, can't remember the model, but I can look when I get home.
I bought the scanner just to do the job, as it worked out cheaper to buy it, and re-sell it after the I had finished scanning, (although I decided to hang on to it just in case I need it in the future!)
Obviously it isn't a mega quick scanner, but I can scan 4 x 35mm at once, and just did a few a day whilst I had nothing better to do. I soon worked my way through them.
When I priced up how much it was to send them off to be scanned, it worked out a lot cheaper doing it myself, and the quality is perfectly good enough for my uses.

 

[GHP]

If you only have a few, if you don't get sorted, send them to me, and I'll do them for you.
Us suvveners should stick together after all !!

 

[bulldog5988]

I used an Epson V200. slow but it did do the job to my satisfaction.

 

[boliston]

I'd grab something like a second hand Epson 4490 - there seem plenty going in the region of £30-£60 on ebay and it does a good job with negatives.

 

[ccimaging]

You're probably right, if it was just a few I'd suggest sending them to us and we'd do a good deal for you, but for that many you will end up paying a lot more than just buying a decent scanner and putting the hours in yourself.
If however you do it and decide you want a few strips scanning at high resolution, give us a tinkle and see what we can do!

 

[chris330]

I've used http://www.mr-scan.co.uk/ before. Got a really good service from them.

 

[edthesock]

Cheers for the offer Gary and ccimaging but I got lots of em to deal with. Turns out my local library has a scanner and I thought if that scanner is crap I might go what Gary suggests and just buy one and sell it on afterwards. That said, mr scan looks way easier.

Cheers fellas!