Digitize your old photos...

[jazz lady]

cheaply and easily. Or so the story says:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/technology/personaltech/14pogue.html?no_interstitial

offer made by a California company called ScanMyPhotos.com. It says it will professionally scan 1,000 photos for you, the same day it receives them, and put them on a DVD for $50.

I have tons of photos I would love to have digitized but have little time to do it myself. I think it might be worth it. Opinions? Other options?

 

[BuddyLee]

Shoot. I'll do it for $50.

I don't know about putting it on a DVD though.

 

[GWguy]

cheaply and easily. Or so the story says:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/technology/personaltech/14pogue.html?no_interstitial



I have tons of photos I would love to have digitized but have little time to do it myself. I think it might be worth it. Opinions? Other options?

My biggest concern would be losing the originals in shipping.... not replaceable. The price doesn't sound bad...

I had looked into an automatic scanner. It took Kodak carousels and auto-scanned each photo, them moved onto the next one. Price was steep, $1500. I figured I could recoup the cost by doing it for others, but I don't have the motivation....

 

[jazz lady]

Shoot. I'll do it for $50.

And what would you do for a Klondike bar?

I don't know about putting it on a DVD though.

That was the whole point. lol

 

[jazz lady]

My biggest concern would be losing the originals in shipping.... not replaceable.

I have all the negatives so that doesn't really concern me. :shrug:

The price doesn't sound bad...

I thought it was pretty decent as long as you don't get sucked into all their "extras."

I had looked into an automatic scanner. It took Kodak carousels and auto-scanned each photo, them moved onto the next one. Price was steep, $1500. I figured I could recoup the cost by doing it for others, but I don't have the motivation....

$1,500? I don't want them digitized THAT badly. I guess if you set it up as a little side business it would be worth it but I don't have the time for that either.

 

[BuddyLee]

And what would you do for a Klondike bar?


That was the whole point. lol

I'd rather have it in CD form.

Whatchu' gonna do, watch your photo's for four hours?

Oh and I don't like Klondike bars.

 

[jazz lady]

I'd rather have it in CD form.

Whatchu' gonna do, watch your photo's for four hours?

You haven't seen MY pictures.

Oh and I don't like Klondike bars.

 

[BuddyLee]

You haven't seen MY pictures.

I don't need to. I peek through your bathroom window.

 

[jazz lady]

I don't need to. I peek through your bathroom window.

My bathroom window is all wavy glass block, like a funhouse mirror.

 

[BuddyLee]

My bathroom window is all wavy glass block, like a funhouse mirror.

So that's why you looked so funny.

 

[GWguy]

I'd rather have it in CD form.

Whatchu' gonna do, watch your photo's for four hours?

The name "DVD" does not mean "movie". You can store data of any kind on a DVD just like a CD, 'cept it holds up to 8Gb worth of info as opposed to 650Mb.

 

[BuddyLee]

The name "DVD" does not mean "movie". You can store data of any kind on a DVD just like a CD, 'cept it holds up to 8Gb worth of info as opposed to 650Mb.

Yowza! You learn something everyday and especially around you.

First, vollyball engineering 101 and now this!

 

[GWguy]

Yowza! You learn something everyday and especially around you.

First, vollyball engineering 101 and now this!

Don't applaud, just throw money.....

 

[BuddyLee]

Don't applaud, just throw money.....

As soon as I hit the lottery, which will be in about 50 years.

Can you wait that long?