Comments on: Any Suggestions on Scanning Slides . . . How and Who?

By: Jean

Jean — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:02:55 +0000

http://www.scantodigital.com did a great job on my old slides and pictures from the 70’s – present. They were very reasonable and had a quick turnaround. Good company.

By: Mike W.

Mike W. — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:58:47 +0000

I run a family archiving service called Affordable Scans (www.affordablescans.com) in Sugar Land (just outside of Houston). We’re the guys in the HAL PC magazine listed to handle scanning questions. We only do scans / archiving (we’re not part of a photo shop) and we can tell you what works well in practice since we see so many jobs and have used pretty much every type of scanner. So if you need some help on what to do, just shoot us an e-mail. We’re happy to answer questions even if you’re not planning on using our service.

By: Jean C.

Jean C. — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:09:46 +0000

I also so the article in USA Today and I think I saw one a while back in the Wall Street Journal ..Finally got everything together and sent it out to a couple of the sites the articles mentioned including digmypics and britepix. The one I found the fastest and cheapest was fotobridge.com. They did a great job with 2000+ photos I sent them (2 shoeboxs full) and I had them back in about a week. I was impressed.

By: Douglas R.

Douglas R. — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 05:57:05 +0000

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2007-10-30-backup-side_N.htm

Saw the above USA Today article called How to digitize your life. Very timely. I took their advise and sent my shoeboxes of photos and also about 700 35mm slides to scanmyphotos.com. Very cool service, especially for how fast they are. Just got the confirmation email today that the order was ready and being mailed back, with tracking info too. amazingly fast and inexpensive. they charged just $50 for 1000 pictures, and separate rate for the slides. their website has all the info. I’m impressed.

By: Carl Farley

Carl Farley — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:38:37 +0000

by Carl For Harry House . . .

I received lots of encouragement and suggestions from your SIG on how to scan my 965 – 35 mm slides. The job is done, and I did go commercial…ScanCafe.com.

They had my slides scanned and ready for review in about 2 weeks. When they were posted on their web site, I had 45 days to delete any that I did not want included in my DVD. After selection, I was notified the DVD has been burned and that I could expect the finished product in 3 – 5 business days. Cost… 25 cents each plus mailing charges.

I thought they did a professional job. They did keep my slides in order and the method of review was quite simple to follow.

Thought you would like to know my results.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:42:36 +0000

Hahahaha I love Carl’s comments. I promise to tread lightly.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:41:33 +0000

I have read all of Liz material. We have been over this numerous times. dpi is printer. ppi is monitor. The measurements of the photo still remain the same. It’s just one is viewed on screen. One is in your hand just out of the printer.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:39:24 +0000

Carl, I’m not talking about size of a pixel as opposed to a dot of ink. I am talking about the physical size of the photos measurements. An 8.5 x 11 photograph will have the same physical size, in a print of 300 dpi or a viewed monitor image of 300 ppi. One is on your monitor and one is from your printer. But the physical size of the image is not any different.

By: Carl Farley

Carl Farley — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:46:18 +0000

Based on Margaret’s last comment, I suspect that many of you would benefit from looking over the Digital Photography web site (Educational section). Numerous hotlinks make it easy for all of you to get a better understanding of resolution, file size, ppi, dpi, print size, compression, digital photography terms, and general knowledge through various tutorials.

Check it out here:
http://www.hal-pc.org/~slcweb2/DigitalPhoto/DigitalPhoto.html

P.S. – BTW, the answers to Marget’s questions are IMHO:

Yes and no, yes (not only for slides but everything digital), p size is not the same as d size. QueenE gave us a detailed presentation on this subject about a year ago based on a lot of late-night sweat-and-tears research. Anyone remember? Warning: Do not use pixels and dots interchangeably when in her presence!

By: Margaret

Margaret — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:12:27 +0000

Question, probably for Picturation? Would PPI maybe be a better term than DPI for slides? Since it doesn’t become DPI until it is sent to the printer. PPI would describe it’s quality on the computer. I’m curious now. I know they are the same size (literally) but the term PPI refers to the monitor, the DPI refers to the printer. Correct me if I’m wrong?
Margaret