Forgot to ask...re: pro slide scanning

[peadarceiteach]

I'm not sure which forum is the correct one for a question such as this - so hope you can help and offer guidance"
I have some Kodachromes from the mid -80's - an Alaska trip shot with an Olympus XA. The camera was remarkable. I need to have the slide scanned. I would prefer that best work possible, but after hours of web searching, I've yet to pick one. I need recommendations. Hope you can help?
Regards - PC

[rogue_designer]

well - where are you generally speaking? Looking to send out anywhere? or prefer to stay localish? And what is your budget per slide? Likewise your resolution requirements?

[peadarceiteach]

Evening RD - thanks for the response - truth is I know next to nothing about scanning. I like very high resolution, and would be willing to pay market price for each scan. I'd like the files to be put on disk and sent to me. Local or not is not an issue for me.

[SteveBennett]

Hi PC -

I would suggest that you send the slides out to a scanning service like the one that I own (Pixmonix - http://www.pixmonix.com).

For about $1 per slide, you will get high resolution (4000 PPI) scans with ICE, color and exposure correction. The project will be completed much faster than you could ever do it yourself and quite likely at a lower overall cost. You will have the high resolution TIFF files for further manipulation in Photoshop/etc., but you should expect to get digital images that require no additional work for almost all uses.

There are occasions where poeple want to go the extra miles and have slides drum scanned. I believe that this is very rare. My suggestion is that you take the fast and inexpensive path (i.e., ~$1 per slide). Then, only if you have a particularly special image that may benefit from the wet mounting you can send it out to a high-end drum scanning lab (at a cost of tens of dollars per image).

Best regards --

--Steve
Pixmonix Slide and Negative Scanning Services

[peadarceiteach]

Thanks Steve - glad you came along - I'll go over them again and drop you a line.