Just got back my first roll of slides today, together with a CDR of the scans, from Photo Friend at Peninsula. I guess I'm one of those who will never turn back to negatives again (unless necessary) after seeing the quality of slides. The scanning costs $18 for a roll, resolution of 3072x2048. The reason why I tried the scanning was becuz I wanted to see the quality of the professional scans and compare it to the digicam scanning method as recommended by megaweb sometime ago. If the quality is comparable for web usage, I'll just use the digicam scan to save money next time.
I don't have a lightbox/lightpanel, so the digicam scans are done with one of those pushlights, you push on the round face and the lights come on, something like a nightlight. Since it doesn't produce white light, I did a manual whitebalance on the light before snapping the slides with a c700uz fixed with a closeup +4 filter. The comparison results are below. All the digicam scans were adjusted in photoshop to try to match the professional scans as much as possible.
I don't have a lightbox/lightpanel, so the digicam scans are done with one of those pushlights, you push on the round face and the lights come on, something like a nightlight. Since it doesn't produce white light, I did a manual whitebalance on the light before snapping the slides with a c700uz fixed with a closeup +4 filter. The comparison results are below. All the digicam scans were adjusted in photoshop to try to match the professional scans as much as possible.