Hacketts

RCNPhotos

Was just in Hacketts today, getting a CD with some medium format slides on it. I dropped em in yesterday to get scanned. I was told it would be €20, that's fine, I don't mind. i need em for college asap.

So I go in today, get the CD and am told actually it's €29.99, oops. Now yes that seems steep but I need em badly, I have the money, I get some mad excuse why it's that much, no one i nthere really seems to know what's going on anyway (really crap service. It's nice to be made to feel like a nuisance when you're forking thirty quid out for scans wouldn't you all agree?)

So I pay anyway, get the hell out of there, pick up prints from Repro round the corner, which are absolutely fantastic, great place too.

So I come home and look at my scans...of medium format slide....and their all around the 900kb mark...for 30 quid.

I didn't specifiy I wanted em high res but I would have thought they would be higher then that no? And the 30 quid?

Anyone had any problems like this before with Hacketts or anywhere?

DaireQuinlan

RCNPhotos wrote: »

Was just in Hacketts today, getting a CD with some medium format slides on it. I dropped em in yesterday to get scanned. I was told it would be €20, that's fine, I don't mind. i need em for college asap.

So I go in today, get the CD and am told actually it's €29.99, oops. Now yes that seems steep but I need em badly, I have the money, I get some mad excuse why it's that much, no one i nthere really seems to know what's going on anyway (really crap service. It's nice to be made to feel like a nuisance when you're forking thirty quid out for scans wouldn't you all agree?)

So I pay anyway, get the hell out of there, pick up prints from Repro round the corner, which are absolutely fantastic, great place too.

So I come home and look at my scans...of medium format slide....and their all around the 900kb mark...for 30 quid.

I didn't specifiy I wanted em high res but I would have thought they would be higher then that no? And the 30 quid?

Anyone had any problems like this before with Hacketts or anywhere?

Yikes. That sounds extraordinarily expensive for what you got. This was just to scan the slides and stick them on CD ? 12 or 16 of them ? or was there several rolls of 120 you had to get done ? To be honest if thats one roll of 120 then I'd expect to get something a little better than low quality scans for 30 quid ...

Where is hackets ? is it in dublin ?

RCNPhotos

12 slides from a roll of 120. Yeah it's on baggot street.

RCNPhotos

Rang them earlier, and yes 30quid to get those slides scanned was the right price. Bit mad. Also they were less then helpful on the phone so I won't be going back for anything other then maybe a frame or two, had one or two nice ones.

ShakeyBlakey

I got a quote a few years ago for hi res scans from 6X7 120 transparencies and I was quoted something like €20 per scan, i think it was about 25MB filesize, cant remember the format jpeg or tiff. I didnt get them scanned.....

stcstc

Proper scans should cost you between 20 and 50 euro per image

thats for proper drum scanned images on a good scanner like an immacon (hassleblad)

the reason for this is:

the scanner costs 20K
a quality person to operate costs 40K
the space to run it costs approx 250/sq ft in dub

so to cover costs, with an ever decreasing market for scans the price i just quotes isnt too high then

if you go ask repro35 where you went for prints about scanning, they do it properly you will find they will quote you the sort of ammount i have suggested

innisfree

That kind of price isn't actually extreme for a professionally done MF scan, but it's a bit rediculous when your're getting back small files. If I was scanning MF film or slides I'd get it done in specialist place.

I haven't used Hacketts in about 6 years but I used to use them on a daily basis. Back then they advertised their services for photo printing but in my opinion they never had as good equiptment for the job as more specialised places. I always thought of them as putting more resources into bulk printing and large format plots for line-drawing plans than any area of photography and prints from them. They've been used by architects and engineers for decades.

Most of the the jobs I got back from them were grand, though in the end there were a few too many silly mistakes for me to want to use them again. It was one job in particular that put me off them forever as the printout they gave back to me was appalling and shouldn't have been handed over.

I'll emphasise that I haven't been there in a few years so I don't know what's changed.

ShakeyBlakey

http://www.dannyburk.com/drum_scanning.htm

Here's a sample price list, actually now that I think of it my quote was €25 per scan for a 250Mb file.

DaireQuinlan

Yeah I was about to add that getting scans professionally done is indeed expensive, and for good reason. A bunch of 900kb scans from one roll of 120 for 30 quid is a bit much though. For that price I'd expect at least to have the roll run through a nikon 9000 or a high end flatbed for a good high res scan.