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Scanning slides - how much to charge?
Thomas Levinson, Student/Intern, Photo Editor
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San Francisco | CA | USA | Posted: 6:18 PM on 05.22.10 |
->> Hi,
I just picked up a job with a woman whose father was a founding member of Greenpeace. She's sitting on a few boxes of 35mm slide film documenting the early history of the group that she wants scanned and cataloged and put online. I've done tons of scanning but always for myself so I'm not sure what a normal rate is for the work.
I am meeting with her next week to get a better idea of the condition of the slides, (if they need restoration, etc.) and a better estimate of the amount of slides, but I'm guessing in the hundreds at least.
So website + online catalog creation aside, what do you think is a fair price for the scanning? $1 a slide? or an hourly rate. |
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Allen Murabayashi, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 6:22 PM on 05.22.10 |
->> scancafe charges $0.35/image using nikon scanners.
do you really want to spend a hundred hours scanning? i would outsource the scanning, and manage the process on her behalf. that is value add that is worth paying for. |
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Ken Shelton, Photographer
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Wyckoff | NJ | USA | Posted: 6:57 PM on 05.22.10 |
| ->> +1 for Scancafe. Great quality, constant feedback where your project is in their system, reasonable price. |
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Sam Morris, Photographer
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Henderson (Las Vegas) | NV | USA | Posted: 9:47 PM on 05.22.10 |
->> I have had a couple people in the last month ask about me scanning for them or if they should buy a scanner. Having borrowed a Coolscan and using it off and on for the past few months, I advised them the same - outsource. I think there may be places a little cheaper than Scansafe, but not significantly cheaper to ignore the above recommendations.
That said, the history major in me would love to get my hands on those images. If by boxes you mean boxes of slides and not cardboard boxes full of boxes of slides, I would probably do it myself and charge $.50 to $1 per slide and spend all my free time doing it. |
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Wesley Hitt, Photographer
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Fayetteville | AR | USA | Posted: 4:41 AM on 05.23.10 |
| ->> Just received 2200 slides back from ScanCafe. Scans look great. I have a Nikon scanner but do not have the time to scan my files. |
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Aleksi Lepisto, Photographer
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Sacramento | CA | United States | Posted: 6:51 AM on 05.28.10 |
->> If you go to www.photofocus.com you can use a code to get some money off of your first scan cafe order. I think it's 20%, regardless of the price.
Also, I think they have 8 day turnaround now, and you can reject up to 50% of the scans after they've scanned them, and not pay for them.
Kinda hard to beat all of that. |
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David Seelig, Photographer
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Hailey | ID | USA | Posted: 1:50 PM on 05.28.10 |
| ->> There is the one issue for those of us that would have to ship our slides, is the danger of shipping, that is slides lost forever can happen. |
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Patrick Fallon, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Columbia | MO | USA | Posted: 1:54 PM on 05.28.10 |
->> David,
Perhaps it would be a good idea to send the slides out in batches - number each of the slides and send the odd numbered ones first, and then send the even numbed ones after the first batch has been completed, thus reducing loss in case a batch is damaged/lost during shipping. |
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Mike Janes, Photographer
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Attica | NY | USA | Posted: 8:24 PM on 05.28.10 |
| ->> I was most worried about losing my negs, but all went well and now have a lot of digital files to sort/tag/get in the online archive. ScanCafe does a great job, but they DO take awhile. I sent mine before going to Spring Training and got them when I got home, over 2 months. Of course one of the reasons was the eruption/flights canceled/etc. |
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