[padg] Re: Negative/Slide Scanners Recommendations?

[C Leach <cleach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would love to know also. We recently aquired over 5000 negatives with no way to develop them. Ours are 3" x 5" too so that makes an even bigger challenge! So if anyone has any advice, it will be great welcome!

Cindy

 

On 6/3/09, Winston Atkins <Winston.Atkins@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

As our library builds photography collections, the Preservation Department increasingly finds that we need to digitize strip negatives and slides. Probably like many of you, we're finding that the more modern collections we're working with can be large, often tens of thousands of images, and working on them a bit at a time isn't an option. I'm writing you all to ask for any recommendations for scanners (strip negative and/or slide) that we should consider for such collections. Right now, I'm concentrating on 35mm format.

And if you have any real life experience with productivity rates and file sizes, I'd appreciate hearing about it. I know that the impact on staffing, on other projects, and on storage will be among the first questions I'll be asked, right up there with cost, if my proposal doesn't address them.
With thanks,
Winston

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Cindy Leach
Public Services Librarian
Rowan County Public Library
185 East First Street
Morehead, KY 40351
(606) 784-7137
cleach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx