Do they do this at photoshops? (prices, printed, pictures, professional)

[Dreamer2019]

Can I take a photo album and let them scan all the pictures which is around 1,000 of them and then scan them and save them to an external hard drive (I will leave my external hard drive for them to save all the pictures)? How much would this cost? Scanning all these pictures is too much work so I rather just leave it for the professionals to do this. I want to take all these pictures and put them on my tablets.

[timberline742]

This is not an easy question to answer, other to say: it depends.


35 mm positives are different from negatives, are different from 110, from 120.


Quality of scan is going to widely vary. I can get a cheapo scan for very little (say a buck or less), and the same slide to have a drum scan done will be $50-75. If I'm having a roll scan when its being developed, a cheap scan of the roll will be $5, medium $10, higher res $15. Having it done outside of development will be different. Also, is the film in strips or mounted slides.


Also, are you willing to mail it off vs doing it local.


There are so many variables here. If you really just want it done fast and cheap, a place like Costco will have them scanned and put on a CD or DVD. I'm sure there are mailorder places that do something similar.

[Poncho_NM]

"photo album" can be a vague term.

"let them scan all the pictures which is around 1,000 of them and then scan them and save them to an external hard drive".

Sounds like you want some photographs scanned as digital images so you can save them to external hard drive...

This is still vague.

Are these color or black and white images printed on photo paper.

Do you have the original photo negatives etc...

Are they glued into an album. Can they be easily removed.

[hawk55732]

Short answer, yes. Cost will vary depending on what is required for the place to do.

[timberline742]

Originally Posted by Poncho_NM

Do you have the original photo negatives etc...

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Oh yeah, I didn't even thing about these potentially being prints to work from. That's another whole animal. I rarely have anything printed, personally.

[Sweden]

Originally Posted by Dreamer2019

Can I take a photo album and let them scan all the pictures which is around 1,000 of them and then scan them and save them to an external hard drive (I will leave my external hard drive for them to save all the pictures)? How much would this cost? Scanning all these pictures is too much work so I rather just leave it for the professionals to do this. I want to take all these pictures and put them on my tablets.

Yes, there are photo labs that do this. I used to do them every week for my older clients (I have since switched to being only a professional portrait & commercial studio since), and loved it.

For a big batch like that, we charged $1/scanned image. If they needed retouching (outside of basic color/contrast), we charged another $1/retouched image.
But this was in Anchorage, Alaska, so your prices will most likely be different.

[Dreamer2019]

I called them. It costs too much. I am going to have to do it.

[bigbear99]

Scancafe has done this for years, at a cost of far less than $1/per print. You might google to learn more about quality and such.

[timberline742]

Originally Posted by bigbear99

Scancafe has done this for years, at a cost of far less than $1/per print. You might google to learn more about quality and such.

Thanks for that tip. The prices are great. Personally I'd be petrified of mailing off anything I care about to a place like that, but for generic stuff, I might give it a go.

[bigbear99]

Scancafe has been around for years, so if there's problems, you could easily find out with google. My understanding is that the scanning itself is done in India. That alone should not be a problem unless there's complaints of lost photos.