Cost of scanning 35mm and 120mm

[DigitalPhotography]

Last weekend I decided it was time to take the old Pentax 645 out for a drive.* I took my 17 months old son with me and shot several rolls of slide film of him exploring the Japanese Tea Gardens in San Francisco Golden Gate Park.* The film was developed, but my wife is dissappointed that she cannot easily share them and would like to have them available for printing and emailing to family and friends.* I was reading that the best results is to have the film drum scanned.* Given that, I looked up the price sheet at the New Lab.* It has a price of $50 for drummed scanned images. Is $50 for a single image or is that for an entire roll (15 exp.)?* Also, when scanned are the images burned to a cd or dvd?

Thanks.

[ditto1958]

Those darn wives! Well... every cloud has a silver lining. Now you can tell her you absolutely NEED a new dslr.

You should expect to pay anywhere from about $.99 to $3.00 per scan for 35mm images. I don't know if it is more for 645 slides.

[DigitalPhotography]

Originally Posted by ditto1958

Those darn wives!* Well... every cloud has a silver lining.* Now you can tell her you absolutely NEED a new dslr.

You should expect to pay anywhere from about $.99 to $3.00 per scan for 35mm images.* I don't know if it is more for 645 slides.

That can add up to some $ fast! I think I'll try your suggestion for a new DSLR.

[BobTrips]

$50 per frame of 35 mm film drum scanned doesn't sound like a bad price to me.

Scans in the $1 to $3 per frame range are not going to be drum scans.

If you just want scans for web/email then try some place such as Costco. For a few bucks they will scan the entire roll to CD. Then if there's a really special frame that you might want to print large you can take it to a custom lab.

[mikej]

Before I went digital I got a HP S20 negative scanner. It cost about $400 at the time but did a good job on 35mm negatives. I then started scanning in my own color negatives and even got back into black and white and developed my own film again. The S20 only does up to 35mm negatives though and all of my early work was done with a RB67 on 120 film. I've been thinking of getting one of the Epson flat bed scanners that have a negative scanner attachment where you can do strips of 35mm, 120mm or even up to 5x7 large format negatives for about the same $400. The scans are pretty good, although it does take a while to do a large number of negatives. Which is why I've not gotten one as the daunting task of scanning in all my 120 negatives holds me back.

But check out the Epson flat bed scanners for those with the negative scanning options. You might find that it isn't as expensive as you think to scan in your negatives.

Mike

[BobTrips]

Before I went digital I got a HP S20 negative scanner. (Actually negative/slide/small print scanner.) It cost about $550 at the time but did a somewhat good job on 35 mm trannies.

I then spent a bit over a year making ~4 meg Jpeg scans of my ~12,000 slides.

Buying my first digital camera was a no brainer.

If you want to make some quite large prints from MF film then there do seem to be some good flat bed scanners that do a pretty good job. You might want to do a search on www.luminous-landscape.com. The issue has been discussed there a few times.

[ditto1958]

Regarding the new DLSR: for the price of a new DSLR kit (around $1000) I suppose you could instead buy a scanner and a good printer..

[Stephanie]

Hmm. Here (Gainesville) they want $4.50/scan with the Nikon Cool Scan (At the only place I know of that'll scan slides). They ask $30/scan for drum scans. OUCH!
I have been looking online. and...
http://www.slidescanning.com/service...e_pricing.html ...looks good to me, but I've yet to try them.