Printed photo to digital service

[AMac]

Hi Everyone,
Just having a sort out of all our old family printed film photos.
Just wondered if anyone had any recommendations for a company to scan, I would guess about 300-400 printed phots.
Thanks for any help or advice,
Alex

 

[Nod]

TBH, I'd treat the job of scanning them in as a trip down memory lane and buy a reasonable scanner to do the job. That would almost certainly be cheaper than farming the work out.

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

TBH, I'd treat the job of scanning them in as a trip down memory lane and buy a reasonable scanner to do the job.

I'll second that.

Alternative: get a copying stand, put your digital camera on it and photograph the prints that way. If you've got a phone with a camera, you have a choice of low cost stands for using that, starting from less than £30 on Amazon (search for "phone copy stand")

 

[moggi1964]

As Nod and Andrew said, if you have the time I would suggest buying a scanner like an Epson V500 or even one of the 3000 series and scan them yourself.

It is time consuming but I really enjoyed the reminiscing as I scanned them and it also meant I could tweak the images to my liking.

 

[AMac]

Hi guys, sorry I didn't get an email notification.
Actually I hadn't thought of doing it myself, but I think you might be right about the reminiscing bit
I have a a cannon printer/scanner, it's a bit slow, but I think it would do the job.

 

[Nod]

IIRC, you can fit 3 6x4 prints on an A4 scanner bed which will speed things up a bit.