supraman215
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I was looking to start a simple, local only, word of mouth, 35mm negative scanning business. It would be cheap simple scanning. I've put the word out with some friends and family.
My angle is cheap digitizing of your old photos one roll at a time. Safe storage, able to reproduce high quality prints, no degredation over time, etc. I'm just doing a feeler now I put up a simple web page only.
My price schedule is WAY cheap, again I'm just starting up so I want to see if there's any interest and it won't be my primary source of income. I'm going to charge $1 per 35mm film strip.
If there is enough interest I was going to purchase a Nikon Coolscan V (LS-50) to do the work, all the other equipment (lightscribe dvd burner etc.) and software (Photoshop) I have already. However since I don't yet have the scanner it will be hard for me to really show people examples.
So my questions are, what do people think of this business, also does anyone have the above mentioned scanner and could send me a 2000dpi RAW scan for me to play with, i.e. different compression and printing options. Thanks.
Jeff
My angle is cheap digitizing of your old photos one roll at a time. Safe storage, able to reproduce high quality prints, no degredation over time, etc. I'm just doing a feeler now I put up a simple web page only.
My price schedule is WAY cheap, again I'm just starting up so I want to see if there's any interest and it won't be my primary source of income. I'm going to charge $1 per 35mm film strip.
If there is enough interest I was going to purchase a Nikon Coolscan V (LS-50) to do the work, all the other equipment (lightscribe dvd burner etc.) and software (Photoshop) I have already. However since I don't yet have the scanner it will be hard for me to really show people examples.
So my questions are, what do people think of this business, also does anyone have the above mentioned scanner and could send me a 2000dpi RAW scan for me to play with, i.e. different compression and printing options. Thanks.
Jeff