Comments on: ScanCafe Can Save Your Old Photos Before It’s Too Late

By: George

George — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:01:45 +0000

just would be so tough to throw away some of these old photos. many date from World War II era. thank you so much for your comments!

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:13:53 +0000

George,

It really depends how you normally use your photos – and I don’t mean the old ones that only existed on paper. New, digital ones: do you still print them an sort them in a photo album? If yes, you should hold onto the old prints, too.

If not, i.e. you only look at your photos on-screen (like I do), then take a deep breath, throw the old prints away. They take up space, collect dust and deteriate. Just make sure you have backups of your digital albums (local an online).

By: George

George — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:53:08 +0000

So, the thousands of original pictures came back. And a terrific DVD. Wonderful. Now, what do you do with all of those great old original photos?? Do you just throw them out because you’ve now got digital images? I scanned in a bunch myself at home, but even after scanning, I’ve got this folder of unsorted, unlabeled pictures that I just don’t know what to do with. Any suggestions from anyone else?

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By: Photo Scanning .ca

Photo Scanning .ca — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:50:53 +0000

Wow, I run a similar business in Canada, but never even though of doing the scanning in India! I hope none of the shipments ever get lost, as I’m sure theres hundreds of thousands of photos that go over at a time. Well, they obviously know what they are doing!

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By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:11:26 +0000

Chris,

I found (and had digitized) some all the way from my parent’s childhood:-) And a bunch that were trapped in big bulky slide carousels, a continent away from me. I’d never be able to get several suitcases full of slides, the only chance was digitize them.

I’m now overwhelmed sorting / tagging them in Picasa

By: Chris Yeh

Chris Yeh — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:48:28 +0000

Love it Zoli! I have tons of albums dating back to my childhood. This is phenomenal.

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:20:42 +0000

Christian,

I don’t think SmugMug is an alternative, rather a complementary service, a very good one, indeed. They are all about storage and sharing, but they don’t offer scanning – do they? You need digital pix (native or digitized from paper) to use SmugMug.

In fact I discovered the SMUG15 code somewhere on a SmugMug blog, and the ScanCafe Community page is powered by SmugMug:
http://community.scancafe.com/

By: christian

christian — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:30:28 +0000

Never tried ScanSafe looks like a great service. I will be sure to check it out. As an alternative I use SmugMug. Also a great service. Find my review at http://printedproof.com