scanning
2007-12-25 by Peter De Smidt
What do you consider a "fair" price to be then that meet your > needs? I have a Nikon Coolscan V and a Canon 9950f. I use an FH-3 holder or custom holders, sometimes with frosted acrylic diffusion screens, and sometimes with wet mounting. So any scan that I'd be willing to pay for has to be better than what I can do with my fairly low cost stuff. If it's significantly better than what I can do, then I'd be willing to pay, say $70-$90, for a 35mm scan, and proportionally more for scans from larger format. But I also require that the business have good communication skills, such as sending an email when negatives are received, sending another one when it's sent out, letting me know if there's an issue... If the cost for good work is much higher than that, I'll take John's advice and get my own high-end scanner, probably a Screen Cezanne. This is especially appealing, as I can probably take a year to scan all my stuff and then sell the scanner for a significant percentage of my cost. It'd be even better, though, if I can find such a scanner to rent time on. > Yes, it's a tough question. You know how look it can take on both > easy negs and thin flat negs. And at that fair price how many people will > you attract to a scanning service when many shop by price and turnaround? > > Eric I have no idea. As I said, the market for such things must be fairly small. So far I haven't found a place that meets my requirements. Sometime soon I'll give Lenny Eiger a chance. (He has an Aztek Premier, DPL software, and lots of experience printing at a high level.)