Print Film to Digital Conversion

[deevee]

I'm sure this topic must have been covered before, but search didn't turn anything up, so I'll ask anyway!

I have a couple of (big!) boxes of photographic prints, including a bunch of APS films which have been processed and printed. I'd really like to convert some of these to digital and add them into my online photo library.

Obviously I could sit and scan them in a print at a time, but there are thousands of the buggers, so that isn't particularly practical.

Has anyone used (or know of) a decent high-street or mail service for turning prints/print film into jpegs?

Any advice or suggestions would be gratefully received!

cheers
deevee

[deevee]

Bump!

No takers on this one then?

[toothlessjim]

I think the best you'll get is take them somewhere that will do print from prints as they should do prints to cd too, i have a feeling it would be rather expensive tho

[Roy the Boy]

I've been considering this too and came up with these:-

http://www.digitiseyourphotos.co.uk/pricing.php

http://www.evermedia.co.uk/Photo-Slide-to-DVD-VCD-...

http://www.treasured-memories.org.uk/33.html

Considering the free image enhancement services included, the last one looks good.

[deevee]

Thanks for those links Roy.

Blood hell - it's going to be expensive though! Might just be cheaper to go back to all the places I've been in the last 20 years and take new photos!

[Simpo Two]

I'd re-photograph them. Set flat in good even light, click, JPG.

[deevee]

Now that's not a bad idea!

Might have to have an experiment to see what the quality comes out like. Some kind of tabletop mount for the camera and a glass sheet to flatten the pictures under would be useful.

Hmmmmmm....

[sjwb]

I have doen the re-photgraph thing and it works very well; time consuming, but perhaps it concentrates one's mind as to which are the really important photographs.

[GetCarter]

'Tis also what I've done and once set up, you get through them remarkably quickly. I used two 'daylight' lamps - very bright white light, manual focus, and a tripod with an extendable arm (benbo)