[AT] OT... sort of - negatives

[hank at millerfarm.com]

I suggest you re-think your local photo lab.   Generally they will do  
this for something like $.25 each (and discounts if you have a large  
amount to do), with much higher quality equipment than you will buy as  
a consumer.    Retail negative scanners run at least $50, and  
generally closer to $100, and require a lot of labor to switch  
negatives and scan each...    You can get a lot of negatives  
professionally scanned for $50.   Retail scanners generally are not  
high quality, I wouldn't be surprised if they break before you break  
even over having this professionally done.

Someone mentioned they burn all this to CD and spread them around.   I  
suggest you look for archival grade CDs - they are rare (and cost $1-2  
each instead of $.15), but cheap CDs tend to only last a few years.

Good luck.

Quoting Ernie <cchopper at centurytel.net>:

> I have not tried what you are doing but I have another technical question.
>
> A few years ago I lost a photo album of many pictures of many Samson Model M
> tractors.  I do have some of my 35 mm negatives.  Does anyone know of a low
> cost way of getting them developed and made into a jpg file?
>
> Is there something I can buy to use with my printer and/or computer?
>
> I don't want to take all of my negatives to a photo lab if I don't have to.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Ernie
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Dick Day
> Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009 8:43 PM
> To: ATIS
> Subject: [AT] OT... sort of
>
> I'm sitting here "ripping" my old albums to digital MP3 files and having a
> blast. It got me to wondering if anyone on the list has ever done this?  I
> have 100's of vinyl albums that I fear might one day get damaged, so I am
> preserving the songs on the computer.
>
> It's inexpensive and easy to do.  A $70 USB turntable and some free software
> is all you need. They didn't have "She thinks my tractor's sexy" back when
> vinyl was popular (please note the obligatory reference to tractors).
>
> Anyone else tried or thinking of trying this?
>
> Dick
>
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