bulk scanning

stcstc

I am looking at offering a bulk scanning service

just looking for some indications as to what people would look for in a bulk scanning service

would it be negs or prints that people would look for to be scanned?

if its negs would it be mainly 35mm?

PCPhoto

more than likely old 35mm and 120mm negs ....maybe prints.

most people who offer this kind of service also do a restoration service - for old tattered images.

Personally ...what I would like is someone who can scan, categorize/caption and file images so they are returned organised and correctly captioned for upload to photo library.

DaireQuinlan

Hmm it's hard to tell what people might want. I'd say you'd have two distinct types of business. Firstly people who want to digitise years worth of old shots, primarily prints and to a lesser extent mounted slides I'd imagine. They'd expect clean scans of probably not too high res for web use. They'd also I'd expect not be willing to pay very much.
Second group would be current shooters. Their needs would be all over the shop, but I'd say clean high res scans of neg/slide with minimal colour correction would probably be in demand. Some might want 64bit RGBI scanner raws to do their own IR pass and colour correction. It's kinda hard to tell.
For joe schmo who comes in with a bunch of albums or boxes of slides I'd say you'd have to offer at least minimal organisational capability, tags/keywords, added bonus might be uploading them to some service of their choice on their behalf so they can just bang away and email the links to the extended family or whatever.

DaireQuinlan

Forgot to ask actually, what sort of equipment are we talking about here ?

stcstc

PC, kinda what i was thinking. there are poeple out there already who offer cheap volume scans

what i was thinking was offering something with a cleaning service and some kind of tagging

daire

there are a couple of bits of kit i am looking at. a 35mm scanner which can do 4000dpi and automate scanning of 100 slides or negs

the other bit of kit is a bulk print scanner, will hold 100 prints and scan at decent enough for most things

ThOnda

That is excellent idea. The pain is however the price. The lower you'll go, the more work you'll do.
4000 dpi is decent, equivalent of 5D and you won't be able to go much higher with standard consumer films either.
35mm roll uncut
35mm cut per 5 frames
35mm slide mounted per frame
120 6x45
120 6x6
120 6x7
Possibility to ship it to you by mail or delivery service.