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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kamper" data-source="post: 358727" data-attributes="member: 3754">It has been a few years back that I converted all my prints and slides to digital, it was a huge project that took my wife and myself about 3 months to complete. I had Rubbermaid totes full of photo albums and slide carousels. I bought a flat bed scanner to scan my prints and bought a slide/negative scanner to scan my slides. The flatbed scanner wasn't that expensive, but the slide scanner was about $400 and was Firewire and USB compatible. I considered having the process done by a local company that offered the service but they charged close to a $1 per scan, maybe $.90 if I remember correctly. I had around 6k slides and scans to do so I got busy and we did it ourselves. I had a bunch of old photo albums that the prints were stuck to the pages and I had to cut the pages apart around the photos to save the photo. I would then scan the photo and later discard the print. Really important photos I would do high res scans but a lot of photos I did more of a lower res to save time as that was the big issue waiting on the computer to save the scan. I basically did the same for all my slide scans but used a slide/negative scanner. This process took hours to get through all my stock photos...My wife would organize piles of photos for me to scan by years and I would work on the piles on my days off and free time after work until my eyes would cross...It took us about 3 months to get everything digitized, and that did not include any editing of the scans. After I was done I sold the slide scanner to a guy at work for about 60% of what I paid and we were both happy with the deal. It took a bunch of time for us to complete but we were able to keep only the scans we wanted and we saved ourselves a bucket load of money.It was a good process to do as my stock of photos had been downgraded to a storage area that got fairly hot in the summer and cold in the winter and it was only time before they became junk..many of the early year photos, some dating back to 1976 were becoming yellow so it was time to get them scanned, and edited while they were still salvagable. Most everything turned out really good after hours of editing and are now safe on hard drive in a firebox, a copy on Time Machine and an upload to Crash Plan. I am up to just under 14k photos to date. It was a real PIA to do but I am glad it is done. I still go back and send old photos to people for different occasions via email and I always get comments about the old photos. I feel I secured a lot of family history when we went to digital, I could have lost everything in a fire or even water damage, but now they are secure. Just my $0.02 Ken</blockquote>

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