I use an Epson Perfection V500 Photo scanner. (purchased for $15 via
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Scanner software is VueScan, pay once and you get updates forever.
Most of my use was for 2.25x3.375" negatives made by my grandfather with
a brownie camera - which I have on our mantle.
As many have mentioned the process is tedious. Having said that, it
works great. I scanned 335 negatives, send them off to Costco, had them
run a half dozen copies of everything, and gave them to my aunts and
uncles.
I know I did do some print copying. Not that I can remember anything
about that part - other than it worked very well.
If you are curious the images from the 20s through the 50s are at:
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMi32gCyQ-k15vkjDHvh0S8dOns1F8OS1zVxhBVhUMu_GhDgveSL0sqI51rg9nz1g?key=aF9jQ0ZMVDRkdUJRWXBCeThLLWhobVZFemw2OWZn
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Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon
Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity
On 2021-07-04 08:53, Galen Seitz wrote:
Hi,
I'm interested in hearing people's experiences scanning their photos.
We have a large collection of old prints of various sizes, both B&W
and color that we would like to digitize. I checked the mailing list
archives and was surprised that I couldn't find any previous
discussion of this. My product searches all seem to lead to the Epson
FastFoto FF-680W. This is a $600 photo scanner that can scan a stack
of prints at 3 seconds per print. Despite the high price and
apparently Windows-only software, this seems to be the best choice for
bulk scanning photos. Does anyone have experience with this product
or a similar product?
BTW, in the future there may be a need to digitize slides, but for the
time being my focus is on prints.
thanks,
galen
