Need help: Scanning & Expanding slides.

[StriperSS]

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Sam, have you made a deciscion on this yet? I have boxes and boxes of color slides from 1954 to 1980. I just started to go through them today and it's a disaster trying to load antiquated projectors and viewers and the like. I need to scan several hundred slides for my family. I have pictures of relatives my kids have never seen.

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I would say that the easiest way to go about this is to approach a photo store that you trust and ask about getting them to scan them at a medium resolution onto CD's for you. See if they'll make a deal.
I know how long it took me to scan the ones I did to post here. Can you imagine doing them 4 at a time and assigning them to different folders? At least if they're all on CD's, you can print or post them at will.

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Just came from the local photo place after making a few calls. To scan a color slide to a disc is $2.00 each slide, to print on paper is $2.50 each. No discount for quanity as it is labor intensive. Looks like I'll be needing a new scanner (I just got one last month).

Glenn, maybe you let me know next time you are up here in Elmont and we can work something out.
I can drop off a case each week?

[Dog427435]

Chris - it would be my pleasure, and if I work at my regular pace I should have them done in time for SCR 25.
But seriously - the cost of getting them done professionally is what convinced me to get the slide scanner. A few boxes of slides and it's paid for itself!
My first scanner is an Epson CX4800 which does a great job on photo prints and paper articles, but does not have slide scanning capabilities.
I got the V100 and once you become proficient at poping the slides into the holder you can scan a box of 36 slides in less than 20 minutes.
A rainy day, a couple beers and you've got your afternoon all planned out!

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Here is a one slide of thirty I just picked up from the photo store on a disc ($65.00). It looks like they cropped the right side (VW in garage) and printed the frame on the left. I will be getting my own scanner to avoid this in the future. It's nice to see these shots from 40 years ago !!