We get asked all sorts of questions, no problem with that, photo scanning is not something everyone knows much about. But whether it’s really basic (“Can you scan colour and black & white?”) or up to the highly technical (“How do you set a black point?”) one of the most frequent areas of questioning is how many photos can you scan?
At the moment we have a major job on, we’re scanning a family archive for a large family whose fortunes have left them dispersed around the world. We’ve done thousands of slides and negatives, just at the end of last week we started on the prints.
Anyone who has thought about scanning will tell you prints are the worst. Negatives and slides can often be batched up so you can do a strip, a batch of slides or maybe even a whole film roll in one session. But photos are often seen as a one at a time exercise. Yes, if you do that yourself you’ll quite possibly never get to the last photo album.
Thankfully we have a high speed photo scanner in the shape of Kodak’s s1220. Not only does it do a great job (specially in restoring faded colours) it scans very, very quickly.
So next time someone asks me how many we can do in a day I can tell them we did nearly 4,000 yesterday. We could have done more, but 4,000 high quality photo scans isn’t a bad days work.
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