A little extra cash for Christmas

[hellziggy]

I have a ton of negatives, and some slides that I want to convert to digital. I can scan them at work when I don't have anything else to work on, but I've been pretty consistently busy for the last few months so I don't know when I'll even get to any of them. Since I'm the only lab person I'm not willing to do my stuff if there is any customer stuff that I should be doing.

So... I was thinking of picking up a film scanner and just scanning my stuff at home.

If I do that, do any of you have slides or negatives that you would like scanned to digital? I could do it cheaper than almost every place I've found and it would get me a little bit of extra spending money as the holidays come up.

Would any of you be interested in having me do that?

Comments

[genevra.livejournal.com]

I have wedding pics and other stuff that would be nice to have scanned. Also some one-off pictures I don't have negatives for. We could work something out.

hmmm

[shrique.livejournal.com]

I might have something too. Depends on what your gonna charge I guess.

Re: hmmm

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Well, most of the sites I found online will charge $75+ for 100 slides or negs at 3000 ppi. Here at West it is $149 for 100 slides, or $75 for 100 negs, and that is at a resolution of about 1750 ppi. I don't remember National Camera's prices but they were higher than ours.
I'm not looking to make this a business where I solicit strangers to scan their stuff, I'm just looking to help out friends who want their stuff archived without spending gazillions of dollars. At the same time, I don't want to undersell my time that will be involved.
I'm thinking $40-$50 per 100 scans, but I'm also open to suggestions and opinions...
So... Make me an offer!

[chebutykin.livejournal.com]

I'd LOVE for you to scan my Arctic and Spain negatives, but it wouldn't happen before Xmas. (I won't have extra money for such awesomeness until next year.)

[camkin.livejournal.com]

i would totally be up for this, but as i am still unemployed for at least another week or so, i won't be able to do it before Christmas. however, if you're still looking at doing this for a little bit of money after the new year, i would love to work something out.