07-10-2010, 10:20 PM
PeterB, I think the point is that it is no more risky sending them off than keeping them in your house where they could degrade be subject to a house fire, etc. However, I think it is important to use a service that does not send them out of country. One thing you can do to reduce the risk is to put your photos into two separate batches, making the batches roughly equal in terms of content. That way if one of the batches gets lost/destroyed you haven't lost all of your priceless memories.
Negatives and slides are much more costly to scan than prints. There's no two ways about it. Last time I went through this digmypics was the cheapest. However that could have changed by now. You can get a high end flatbed scanner that can scan between 4 and 12 negs/slides per pass with decent (though not archival) quality, but that is still a very slow process.
Negatives and slides are much more costly to scan than prints. There's no two ways about it. Last time I went through this digmypics was the cheapest. However that could have changed by now. You can get a high end flatbed scanner that can scan between 4 and 12 negs/slides per pass with decent (though not archival) quality, but that is still a very slow process.