Ronaldsnl wrote:SquAdmin wrote:If time is your constraint, why wouldn't you have someone do it for you? There are enough companies that offer slidescan services.
Yep, 20 cent per piece, 15000 slides....
Cheers
Ronald
Hi Ronald,
This is actually not too bad as you consider that buying a set up like the person will use for you is about 1500 euro, see Iwan's mail, and he will do the most tedious work for you, the scanning itself. I use a Nikon 5000ED scanner with slide feeder but that doesn't always work. The feeder is not that sturdy and will regularly push 2 slides in the scanner at one time and best thing to do is first make piles of slides with the same mount thickness. Also cardboard mounts work best by putting them in the scanner one slide at a time.
Another problem is that the auto focus of the scanner is right about 90% of the time but sometimes needs a bit of tweeking for a specific slide so that needs a re-scan.
I have also used a Minolta d'image scan speed and a Nikon 4000ED and this 90% rule is also the case in those scanners, but the 5000ED has a special Kodachrome setting which helps a lot as it let's you get better result with the dust filter on.
In your calculation the cost would be 3000,- euro. If you could buy and sell a scanner without any loss that would be great but taking into account that you need at least an average of 1 minute per slide to scan and not all slides will be able to go through the feeder, one would have the scanner running for 2 hours a day for 3 Moths continuously to scan the 15.000 slides, if all goes in one try.
Of course 3000 euro is a lot of money, but I guess it is a question of money vs time and what you have more of
If have chosen to scan myself as I am also still making slides next to digital, also wanted to scan all my negatives in high quality as many negatives have faded a bit and a few more reasons, so I'll be using the scanner until it falls apart and hope it never will.
Hope this helps.
Iwan Bogels wrote:Ronald, if you buy a Nikon Coolscan 5000 ED with batch feeder you will have one of the best scanners available. The batch feeder will allow you to have it scan 50 slides with one push of a button. If you let it start working when you go to bed or when you go to work, you can scan your 15.000 slides in half a year.
The price for a second hand Nikon Coolscan 5000 ED may be high, but these scanners sell like hotckakes. If you find one for 1500 euro, you can always sell it for 1300+. That way you get high quality scans for the price of a cheap scanner, and it may not even cost you more time.
I know that several people have chosen this option, and I am thinking about it too.
Succes,
Iwan
Hi Iwan,
If you want to try things before you buy just let me know, Rens has been using our 4000ED for many many years now and I am using our 5000ED for about 2 years now. Just let me know.
Dennis
