>>3912221screw it, this is close enough to the discussion I want to have.
good post, I am curious on how to see where my process is going. I'm trying to archive a stupid number of old family photos going back as far as the mid 1800s. Probably a few thousand, so I want a solution to quickly get good scans for prints and negatives. I have a Epson v600.
I went nuts reading up on DPI for various cases, but now this thread is making me see the merit of using a DSLR to "scan" photos and negatives. My problem is that since I have so many and of varying sizes etc. I'm looking for a rather fast workflow that will capture as much data raw as possible. Using silverfast is not fast, but the auto color cast removal feature works pretty damn good so far, haven't tried negatives yet.
anyhow, if anyone CAN give me advice I'm open to it. Not sure if the v600 is considered good, but I bought it new recently.
I'm pretty sure I have some large format negatives and realized I can't scan those too, but few enough that I am willing to have them scanned by a company, if that is even wise?
If I were scanning my own new negatives, I'd be more thoughtful about the process, but again, I have a raggedy old grandma that wants to throw all this cool shit in the trash and I'm trying to scan it before she gets too it, and so far I'm not outpacing her.
