Your fellow TOP reader Richard Man would like you to know about his new commercial scanning service. He offers two tiers, Bulk Scanning and High Quality scanning, and suggests, "Bulk scan your collection, then select the images you wish to make high quality scans of. Best of both worlds!"
For his bulk scanning, mounted slides are scanned using a PowerSlide 3650 with optical 3,600 DPI resolution, and 35mm film is scanned using a Pakon F335 with optical 2,100 DPI resolution.
High quality scans are made with a Hasselblad Imacon 848 Flextight scanner at 6,300 DPI (35mm), 3,200 DPI (medium format), and 2,040 DPI (4x5). Richard says, "the Flextight scans are the highest-quality scan one can make without resorting to drum scanning (which costs 4–6X or more), and the difference between a Flextight image and a drum-scanned image is very minor."
Here's the link. If anyone uses Richard's services (I haven't), by all means report back and let us know how it went!
Mike
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Thanks for the note, Mike. Those are very good prices for the level of quality- good to know in a time of diminishing suppliers.
Rick
Posted by: Rick | Wednesday, 17 January 2018 at 09:31 AM
Thank you for that link Mike. Those prices seem very reasonable. At this point I only shoot film if I can get it processed at the same time, but I have plenty of older stuff still sitting in the “to be scanned” pile. I can’t wait to see some of those images again
Posted by: Michel | Sunday, 21 January 2018 at 11:03 AM
I believe I met Richard Man at Worldcon in Kansas City year before last (2016); the prints he had on display there were excellent. And the prices advertised for scanning look quite good.
Posted by: David Dyer-Bennet | Sunday, 21 January 2018 at 03:57 PM
Better pricing from http://www.agximaging.com
Excellent service as well I have used them several times. First rate
$12 each up to 4x5 on Hasselblad X5
Posted by: Doug Dolde | Sunday, 21 January 2018 at 07:42 PM
Hello David Dyer-Bennet, that was indeed me at KC Worldcon. Thanks for the kind words.
re: Doug Dolde, re: 4x5 scan prices. I pegged my prices to drum scan prices, which are $140–$200. I am not entirely sure whether the "race to the bottom" is a good idea, but I may lower my prices to match. OTOH, most of my businesses so far are bulk scan, or develop and scan, which is what I expected.
This is by no means my full time job. More like if I spend all this money on scanners, let's see if we could recoup some of the cost and offer services.
For example, for B&W, if possible, I use the legendary Harvey 777. It really has a distinct look.
Posted by: Richard Man | Monday, 22 January 2018 at 03:36 AM