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Scanning Thousands of Slides
Gidday CJB
Photomax will take your slides, scan and deliver back to you providing you with CD of them and putting them on a free on-line website. For 100 photos or 75 Slides it costs 55pounds, for 200 98 pounds. In the last 12 months in the US Photomax scanned more photos than all the other scanners in the US put together (over 3Million). They are also the fastest growing of the photo websites. Email me. you can get a free Photowebsite at www.pictureofhealth.myphotomax.com (5GB of storage for free, no minimum activity or purchase level). CJB wrote: Currently I have thousands of slides from the 1960/1970s which I want to scan onto CDs. The quote from Jessops - never the cheapest - is 50p per slide - OUCH!! I don't want to have to rig up a projector and screen and take photos one at a time. So is there a slide scanning device - with automated feed - that I can connect to a USB2 port of a PC - for scanning batches of slides say 100 at a time? Many thanks - CJB. |
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On 21 Jul 2006 20:18:46 -0700, "John" wrote:
Gidday CJB Photomax will take your slides, scan and deliver back to you providing you with CD of them and putting them on a free on-line website. For 100 photos or 75 Slides it costs 55pounds, for 200 98 pounds. At what resolution and into what format? They don't seem to say what service they're actually selling on their Web site; that doesn't give me warm fuzzies about their honesty. -- Larry |
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Hi Larry
It's at 300dpi and into jpg. They are working with the mass market. There is a q'n'a email ". As for their honesty - they've built a billion dollar industry based on word of mouth marketing - I don't think they'd get away with being dishonest. The site is free as is space for 5GB of storage. Services include subscription for more space, DVDs with themed background (put together with Disney), scanning photos, and all the usual (and some unusual) things which can be printed upon. It should be all there. They are owned by a public company (NSE, traded on the NY Stock Exchange under the symbol NUS) whose accounts are all open etc. They also have a 5A1 Dunn and Brad St Credit rating (the highest possible with under 1% of companies having it). Their solidity and reputation were important to me before I stored my photos with them. All the best John pltrgyst wrote: On 21 Jul 2006 20:18:46 -0700, "John" wrote: Gidday CJB Photomax will take your slides, scan and deliver back to you providing you with CD of them and putting them on a free on-line website. For 100 photos or 75 Slides it costs 55pounds, for 200 98 pounds. At what resolution and into what format? They don't seem to say what service they're actually selling on their Web site; that doesn't give me warm fuzzies about their honesty. -- Larry |
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Thanks for all the information. One critical question remains: are they saving
to lossless JPEG or compressing? Thanks -- Larry On 25 Jul 2006 01:11:29 -0700, "Kiwiski" wrote: Hi Larry It's at 300dpi and into jpg. They are working with the mass market. There is a q'n'a email ". As for their honesty - they've built a billion dollar industry based on word of mouth marketing - I don't think they'd get away with being dishonest. The site is free as is space for 5GB of storage. Services include subscription for more space, DVDs with themed background (put together with Disney), scanning photos, and all the usual (and some unusual) things which can be printed upon. It should be all there. They are owned by a public company (NSE, traded on the NY Stock Exchange under the symbol NUS) whose accounts are all open etc. They also have a 5A1 Dunn and Brad St Credit rating (the highest possible with under 1% of companies having it). Their solidity and reputation were important to me before I stored my photos with them. All the best John pltrgyst wrote: On 21 Jul 2006 20:18:46 -0700, "John" wrote: Gidday CJB Photomax will take your slides, scan and deliver back to you providing you with CD of them and putting them on a free on-line website. For 100 photos or 75 Slides it costs 55pounds, for 200 98 pounds. At what resolution and into what format? They don't seem to say what service they're actually selling on their Web site; that doesn't give me warm fuzzies about their honesty. -- Larry |
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On 12 Jul 2006 14:49:14 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet
wrote: A nit -- you're not shooting at 1:1 if you're capturing the full slide on the 1.5x crop factor sensor. i didn't think of mentioning that you have to choose the correct reproduction ratio on the "micro" lens to achieve 1:1 when multiplied by 1.5x with the camera. I'm interested in that. I'd think you would have *more* troubles, since you don't have film profiles (or at least a separate Kodachrome setting), and since the brightness range of this setup probably doesn't use the full range of the camera. i'm not too keen on technicalities that don't show up in final output and i have to say that the "photographed" slides in this way will print up to 12x16" no worse than the original shots taken with a d200 (or d2x) in the same conditions. then, even if it's possible and easy that you don't use the full range of the camera, the part you'll use is enough to give you very good (if not excellent) results. of course we're talking of slides you want to print: i don't even thing of projecting digital images acquired digitally anyway. regards, -- Gianni Rondinini (31, tanti, RA) Nikon user - Bmw driver http://bugbarbeq.deviantart.com |
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pltrgyst wrote: Thanks for all the information. One critical question remains: are they saving to lossless JPEG or compressing? Thanks -- Larry I'll check it out with the company for you... |
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Kiwiski wrote: pltrgyst wrote: Thanks for all the information. One critical question remains: are they saving to lossless JPEG or compressing? Thanks -- Larry I'll check it out with the company for you... I received the following reply ... "Dear John, Thank you for contacting Photomax. Photos are compressed when backups are done to save space. The compression is designed that if there is a data lose we will be able to restore the full resolution photo." There is a place to ask questions at "http://photomax.custhelp.com" John http://www.pictureyourbusiness.myphotomax.com |
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Alan Browne wrote:
Ron Hunter wrote: HDs are so cheap these days ($.33/Gigabyte) that having more than one is not expensive, given the convenience. My pictures are duplicated on 3 or 4 drives. Calculating the probability of failure of all of them at the same time gives VERY small numbers. Then there are the pictures I send to Webshots, which really aren't a great backup, given that they are compressed from the originals, but they would serve as some backup, in a disaster situation. Surely moving the files to a new HD periodically isn't a big problem, and certainly easier than burning 10,000 pictures to CD/DVD! It comes down to your notion of a backup. To me a backup remains a static device that can be stored conveniently. Gold CD's don't need to be copied periodically to referesh them. As I said, in benign conditions they will outlast us all. Pressed commercially with a gold reflective layer perhaps, but "gold CDs" don't record the data on gold, they record it on the same dyes or phase-change crystals as any other CDs. What matters is the chemistry of the dye or phase-change layer, not the composition of the reflective layer. A static CD/DVD sitting in a drawer is not vulnerable to operator error. Of course it is. Spill a bottle of nail polish remover on a stack of them sometime and see how useful they are afterwards. Ultimately, of course, we should not store precious backups at home. Fires do happen. I don't find burning CD's or DVD's to be onerous, just set it up before I go to bed and it's done before I fall asleeep. To each his own. -- --John to email, dial "usenet" and validate (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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