I have thousands of old slides that I'd like to have digitalized. They're Kodak.|||You may want to buy your own transparency scanner.
While there are a lot of companies that provide that service, they charge between $.35 to $3.50 per image depending upon the quality required. Thousands could dent your budget quite a bit.
You can get a VERY good scanner for less than it would cost for you to have just a couple of hundred of your transparencies scanned.
Nikon Coolscan V ED is one of the least expensive, high quality ones. About $550. The software that comes with it has contours for various types of transparencies, colour negatives and black and white negatives, so the contrast and colour matching is easier to achieve. It also has automatic focus and removes dust automatically if you so choose.|||I agree - if you have that many it would be cheaper to scan them yourself. BUT be warned - it will take a long time. Scanning slides can be very slow work. You need to ensure the slides are scrupulously clean, for example, as any tiny mark will show. You may also need to do a great deal of post scanning work, if they have faded etc.|||Here's a place that says they will do it for 35垄 a slide scanned to 2,000 dpi, which is decent. The price goes up to 45垄 for 3,000 dpi and 65垄 for 4,000 dpi. They have a $100 minumum order, though, so if you have "only" 150 slides, you may as well go for the highest resolution. When you get your images back, the higher the resolution, the easier they are going to be to work on.
http://www.myspecialphotos.com/scanning.鈥?/a>
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