Anyone know where I can get a lot of photos scanned to digital media?

I need to scan a hundred or so photos to create a digital picture show
for my sister's wedding. The thought of sitting at a flatbed scanner
and running a hundred pics through manually makes my head hurt. Any
idea of a service that would do this for me?
Costco can only scan from negatives, and Cameras West/Kits charges $5
per photo. Kinko's has a Kodak machine that is essentially a flat
scanner for $5 per CD; still manual.
Any other ideas??
Thanks,
Adam

 

Scanning 100 photos on a flat-bed shouldn't take you more than 1-2 hours at most.
Compare this with selecting, driving to, waiting for, driving to collect...and paying for
someone else to do it can't be much better...and COULD be even worse.

 

Ah, the mother of the groom is paying... within reason. So for a decent
price, I'd rather have her pay than spend the better part of a Saturday
doing it myself. Doing it myself is still a very valid and likely
option though.

 

The more common places for scanning often leave MUCH to be desired in terms of scan
qualityof negatives. You may actually be far happier with even flat-bed scans. I can
understand your hesitancy, but as long as you're not doing a bunch of editing, etc., one
hundred scans really does go fairly quickly--assuming you've got a fairly decent scanner.

How about this: Since the mother of the groom is willing to pay...perhaps you could ask
her to finance or subsidize the purchase of a new, faster, better scanner--which you could
then keep. Then she'll get better scans, and you'll have more than aggravation to show
for your efforts.

 

It would help to know where you're located (Vancouver, BC has Costco,
Kinkos *and* Kits Cameras).

Can't you just take the negs to Costco or another place that will scan
from negs? Don't worry about being selective at that point, just scan
them all onto one or two discs and sort through the digitals later.

 

It really depends on the size of the scan - going for high resolution
will take ages and will be difficult for the slideshow software to work.
Aiming at - say 300dpi will create small files and the scan time for
each picture will be less than a minute. Perhaps you could do it
yourself and them claim you went to Kinkos...?

 

I need to scan a hundred or so photos to create a digital picture show

I looked into this a copule of years ago. I have literally thousands
of 4x6 photos that I'd like scanned. For a while I was scanning them
by hand, but I just don't have the time any more. What I was (and am)
looking for is a machine that takes a stack of photos, feeds them one
by one, and scans them.

If you find something like this, please let us know.

-Joel

 

The more common places for scanning often leave MUCH to be desired in

On reason flat-bed scans of photos usually look better than scans of
negatives is that the photos are already usually
color/contrast/density adjusted.

-Joel

 

It really depends on the size of the scan - going for high resolution

300dpi will create ~12MB files from a 4x6, smaller, obviously, with
compression. Remember, computer equipment usually operates at around
72dpi-100dpi. Unless you plan on enlarging these, 300dpi is overkill.

-Joel

 

From HP:

http://www.shopping.hp.com/cgi-bin/...photosmart&product_code=Q3871A#A2L&catLevel=3

I've heard there are some feed issues, but it'll do what you're asking.
Check around for reviews and prices.

ECM

 

From HP:

Wow. Thanks. Looks like it only scans up to 24 pictures at a time,
but still, that's 23 more than most scannes.

-Joel