I'm going to get some old negatives from a friend to retrieve my old travel pictures from Nepal. Have the idea of converting into digital format for further processing and editing on the camera, i'm looking for a negative scanner that is able to provide quality scan (i'm used to processing raw format from my 6MP DSLR).
Have a split decision between giving it to the shops to process versus doing it myself with relativity to cost effectiveness and time investment. I'm worried that the shops will not entertain requests with regards to quality as we know how some of them work in today's time - ppl just want easy money.
It will be about 10+rolls, potentially more. They are from old compact film camera, so should be 35mm in size (i guess). I'm not exactly sure how much that will cost for shop to convert but they are probably going to cost hundreds of dollars.
plouging thru the old threads on search, there are recommendations for epson v700 which cost abt close to S$900 and some about canon 8800F which should be about $300-400. that is probably what i can afford and won't consider more than 1K. my initial budget works up to $400-600, and thinking of selling it off after working on it (i dun shoot film). i hope it dun have to be something i spend all the time on for scanning, but at the same time hope to good enough quality for the scan, at an avoidable price point of abt $500, is that a bit too much to ask for?
i wonder if anyone can advise on regards on that.
Have a split decision between giving it to the shops to process versus doing it myself with relativity to cost effectiveness and time investment. I'm worried that the shops will not entertain requests with regards to quality as we know how some of them work in today's time - ppl just want easy money.
It will be about 10+rolls, potentially more. They are from old compact film camera, so should be 35mm in size (i guess). I'm not exactly sure how much that will cost for shop to convert but they are probably going to cost hundreds of dollars.
plouging thru the old threads on search, there are recommendations for epson v700 which cost abt close to S$900 and some about canon 8800F which should be about $300-400. that is probably what i can afford and won't consider more than 1K. my initial budget works up to $400-600, and thinking of selling it off after working on it (i dun shoot film). i hope it dun have to be something i spend all the time on for scanning, but at the same time hope to good enough quality for the scan, at an avoidable price point of abt $500, is that a bit too much to ask for?
i wonder if anyone can advise on regards on that.
