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Post by katlady on Jul 17, 2024 16:09:43 GMT
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peabay
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Post by peabay on Jul 17, 2024 16:13:43 GMT
buy and resell when you're done
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Post by papersilly on Jul 17, 2024 17:37:29 GMT
a few prime day years ago, i bought this scanner. it arrive damaged so i returned it. while i contemplated ordering it again, i had second thoughts about it. i had read tons of reviews comparing it to other scanners and i was back to square. one of my "cons" people said was that it wasn't a true Kodak product anymore. they said it didn't have the quality and dependability that the old Kodak products did. much like Singer sewing machines becoming cheap and flimsy in recent years. that Kodak was just licensing out it's name these days. great, like i said, back to square one for me.
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Post by katlady on Jul 17, 2024 17:42:01 GMT
a few prime day years ago, i bought this scanner. it arrive damaged so i returned it. while i contemplated ordering it again, i had second thoughts about it. i had read tons of reviews comparing it to other scanners and i was back to square. one of my "cons" people said was that it wasn't a true Kodak product anymore. they said it didn't have the quality and dependability that the old Kodak products did. much like Singer sewing machines becoming cheap and flimsy in recent years. that Kodak was just licensing out it's name these days. great, like i said, back to square one for me. Thank you! |
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Post by Basket1lady on Jul 17, 2024 18:32:38 GMT
I like using Photomyne to scan photos. Here’s their FAQ page for slides. It looks like you just need a lit background—no scanner needed. I use my iPad set to a blank Pages or Notes document. Or you can get a light pad for around $20. I know Photomyne has theirs on sale on Amazon now, but I’d say that the price is usually about that anyway.
It is a subscription app, but I’ll subscribe to it, scan what I need, and then cancel. So I usually only pay for a month at a time. It’s so easy to use that it’s worth the $12 or so to use it. You can your photos and it will save it all right into Photos. There’s no transferring or fuss. It’s just there.
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Post by katlady on Jul 17, 2024 18:42:21 GMT
I like using Photomyne to scan photos. Here’s their FAQ page for slides. It looks like you just need a lit background—no scanner needed. I use my iPad set to a blank Pages or Notes document. Or you can get a light pad for around $20. I know Photomyne has theirs on sale on Amazon now, but I’d say that the price is usually about that anyway. It is a subscription app, but I’ll subscribe to it, can what I need, and then cancel. So I usually only pay for a month at a time. It’s so easy to use that it’s worth the $12 or so to use it. You can your photos and it will save it all right into Photos. There’s no transferring or fuss. It’s just there. Thanks! I’ll check them out. I do have a light pad. |
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Post by Basket1lady on Jul 17, 2024 18:42:55 GMT
I like using Photomyne to scan photos. Here’s their FAQ page for slides. It looks like you just need a lit background—no scanner needed. I use my iPad set to a blank Pages or Notes document. Or you can get a light pad for around $20. I know Photomyne has theirs on sale on Amazon now, but I’d say that the price is usually about that anyway. It is a subscription app, but I’ll subscribe to it, scan what I need, and then cancel. So I usually only pay for a month at a time. It’s so easy to use that it’s worth the $12 or so to use it. You can your photos and it will save it all right into Photos. There’s no transferring or fuss. It’s just there. Thanks! I’ll check them out. I do have a light pad. I forgot the link to the FAQ page! photomyne.com/faq/slidebox-how-to |
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Post by ntsf on Jul 17, 2024 22:19:12 GMT
I just use scancafe.. they clean the slides too. and you don't pay for the crummy ones to a certain extent. and it gets done. they have sales and bundles and works better than me doing it. I have photomyne, but I wouldn't want to spend hours scanning.
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Post by joylynaroundthebnd on Jul 17, 2024 22:26:31 GMT
If you have a lot of slides, look for a Certified Photo Manager near you. It costs more than doing it yourself, but you will end up with the best quality digitization of your slides. pro.thephotomanagers.com/ |
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Post by papersilly on Jul 17, 2024 22:27:24 GMT
I wouldn't want to spend hours scanning. and that's the major deal breaker for me too. years ago i owned a Plustek photo scanner. not negatives, just photos. well it took forever to scan just the first batch of photos. this was at the "faster" but lower resolution. if you wanted a higher resolution, it took even longer. i gave up after about 30 photos. it just took too long and the resolution wasn't even that great. |
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Post by katlady on Jul 17, 2024 23:41:36 GMT
Thanks everyone! We decided to hold off and do more research. It seems like the scanner goes on sale every so often, so we can wait for the next time if we decide to go that route.
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Post by Basket1lady on Jul 18, 2024 1:15:47 GMT
I wouldn't want to spend hours scanning. and that's the major deal breaker for me too. years ago i owned a Plustek photo scanner. not negatives, just photos. well it took forever to scan just the first batch of photos. this was at the "faster" but lower resolution. if you wanted a higher resolution, it took even longer. i gave up after about 30 photos. it just took too long and the resolution wasn't even that great. I had DH helping me, but I can scan 200+ photos in less than an hour. He would lay them out in groups of four on a sheet of white foam core board. I would do the scan and save them while he did the next set. It took less than a minute per set once we knew what we were doing and got going. You can scan 4 at a time and the app separates them into individual photos (vs the four together). I used it when doing a slide show for DH’s retirement from the Air Force and was scanning old group photos and photos from his various yearbooks. I was really impressed with the quality of the scans. They were up on a big screen in the conference center (NATO—as seen on TV!), so they weren’t just scans on my phone. What is time consuming for me is to go back and change the dates to when the photo was taken, as well as add any notes from the photo. But I’d have to do that even if someone else did the scanning. |
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Post by Scrapper100 on Jul 18, 2024 2:05:51 GMT
I borrowed this one or a similar one from one of our libraries. I had some slides from the 60’s and 70’s not a lot but I just didn’t want to mail them out to be digitized. It was very easy to do and didn’t take long. I didn’t have a lot of slides to do. Well I didn’t end up doing all of them just the important ones. I may borrow it again at some point. Maybe see if your library has one or even ask in a buy nothing group.
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Post by AngieandSnoopy on Jul 18, 2024 16:05:47 GMT
I still have my Epson Perfection V600 photo/negative/slide scanner. They still sell them and I've had this one a long time. I used it recently to scan a friends negatives from the 70's. She was so thrilled to have the pictures. I'm glad to have it and that I don't have to send them out somewhere and risk losing the originals.
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