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Originally Posted by Bill Douglas
I've just persevered with the scanner. I think probably slightly quicker that with the camera. Just work out a process and chug your way through them.
GF's old uncle has just died so I've got a whole lot of her family photos to scan then print for her to take to the funeral on Wednesday.
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If the photos will lay flat you can "scan" or capture a photo in one second or less. Just put down a layer of masking tape on two sides as a guide for where to position the photo. The real challenge is curly photos. Then you need to do some engineering.
Make a baseboard that has a series of holes in it and hook it to a vacuum cleaner for suction. Now you have a vacuum board to help flatten curly photos. It is more work to build and setup but shooting one photo per second you can smoke through a pile of photos in no time.
The real problem is the digital naming convention and how you archive the files. How will your kids or grandkids access those photos in 20 or 40 years.
I have prints from my grandparents honeymoon . I don't know how to keep the digital files forever.