Scanning Negatives
I use an Epson V500 and the included software to scan. I've never been happy with the results, they're very poor indeed in terms of sharpness and colours. Scanning is by far the most complex, difficult and frustrating part of a modern film/digital workflow.
There are better scanners available but they are much more expensive and generally even slower than the Epson flatbeds, so it all depends on how much time, effort and money you want to put into the endeavour.
If you can afford it then send all the scans to a reputable company to scan for you.
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I've got the 35mm slides covered - I've convinced SWMBO that she should view them all first and whittle out any that she does not want, which will save me a lot of time and might give her an inkling of how long it'll take.
My problem is turning the film negatives into positives - what do people use?
The Cheaper scanner also has a small colour screen so the image can be quickly assessed before scanning.
Images are okay "as is" for web use, but any I see that might be worth working on will be taken into the office and put through LR!
Thanks everyone for your ideas and responses.
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Anyway - SWMBO has tasked me with undertaking this exercise... has anyone done such before? If you did, what software did you use to turn the scanned negative into a positive for working on in LR etc?
There are also in excess of 3000 35mm slides to scan, but that'll be much more straightforward. I hope.