Scanning old negative photos

[Lowlander]

I've got about 500-100 negatives and photos, from around 1994-98, that i'd like to preserve.

Photos aside, what is the current opinion on achieving this? Using a negative scanner and saving to disc (local/cloud etc.)?

[DulwichFox]

Scanning is long winded at tedious.. The main problem is Dust.

I have a scanner you can borrow. should that of been 50 - 100 negs. ?

Foxy

[Sue]

I scanned a load of photos using a printer I had bought partly because it specifically did that.

However my son in law told me that the resolution was not high enough and it would be better to have them done by a specialist (which I never got round to).

If you are not bothered about that because you just want the memories, then that wouldn't matter, and I have no idea how much it would cost to have them done elsewhere (or even if my son in law was right) but it's something you might want to take into account.

And Fox is right, it's a very boring job and dust on the scans is not what you want ...

[Lowlander]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Scanning is long winded at tedious.. The main

> problem is Dust.

>

> I have a scanner you can borrow. should that of

> been 50 - 100 negs. ?

>

> Foxy

Thanks Foxy, that's a kind offer. I think I have around 500-1000 (original typo) as I was quite a prolific photographer at the time. I do have a scanner, but not the time or patience to remove dust and dirt.

There are some online options but I don't want to risk sending them by post, rather do it myself or pay someone in south London.

[Captkerk]

Snappy Snaps will scan in Hi Res or Bulk depending on your needs and burn to a CD or DVD.

[alex_b]

For negatives I could never find a cost effective option for sending them out. I bought a Epson v500 negative scanner and although it's really really time consuming it is very effective. It has IR scratch and dust removal that seems to work pretty well. I have a little air puffer to clean the negatives before I scan them and a light box to weed out the out of focus photos of hedges and flowers that my gran used to take to use up a roll!

I've done about 3000 35mm and medium format negatives (20+ years of family photos) and it was a year long project. I still have a thousand 110s/16mm to do which is a project for this year.