And if so, how did it work for you? How many photos did you send them, how much did it cost, and how good a job did they do? Did you have pictures in albums, and how did you/they handle that?
My wife and I are in the usual situation of people who lived a good deal of their adult lives in years beginning with 1: we’ve got hundreds (probably over 1000, really) of photos that we took on film. We could put them on a scanner and digitize them ourselves, but that would take a great deal of time - and our free time is already too scarce.
I’ve heard there are services that’ll do this for you, but that’s the extent of my knowledge. So, who’s had experience with this?
My sister had hers done at Jostens and was very pleased. She mailed in her photos in envelopes sorted according to date, and they scanned them and put the various images into different folders they way she had provided them.
Hey, what’s a photo when people send their gold in for cash to total strangers all the time.
I just bought this scanner to scan documents and images. It’s a bit of overkill for the documents but works great with photos. It comes with Photoshop Elements 6.
If she has the negatives, wouldn’t she get better results by scanning those instead of the paper photos? With the added bonus of being able to scan a whole strip of negatives at one shot, rather then one photo at a time.
I don’t have any practical experience, but I got an e-mail from Brookstone this morning offering this on sale, so I thought I’d post it. Standard disclaimer: No affiliation with Brookstone or the product, and it might be sold out by now.
I have the very same scanner and just scanned img932. I still have a huge number of photos to scan; but this scanner is fabulous. I am the family archivist. After looking at the prices companies charge I may start my own company once I have completeld the family project.
This is very helpful - the scanmyphotos.com and jostens.com websites were both very informative. Jostens does higher-resolution scanning than ScanMyPhotos (600 dpi v. 300 dpi), but costs over four times as much ($150 for 500 photos v. $64 for 1000 photos) so I might be doing something like sending everything to ScanMyPhotos, then once I can see what it looks like, decide what I’d really like to have done with better resolution, and send that to Jostens.
I’ve done a bit of Googling just now, and these two places seem to be the price leaders at their respective resolutions.
The gizmo at Brookstone sounds like it might have potential, especially at only $60, but it got really crappy customer reviews at Amazon.
