For the past few years I’ve been borrowing photos albums from Mom and Dad and using Google Photoscan to scan the photos.
I thought I was on the right path. It was quick to use and it created a backup of a memory in case something happens to those photos.
But the other day I was perusing Google Photos (where I store all my digital photos) and noticed duplicate photos where one looked really great and one…not so much.
It make me realize that I should really put more effort into scanning these things in the future.
The photo that triggered this line of thinking
This is the other copy I have. It sure looks clearer. I still have to track down where I got this copy from in the first place…I believe Uncle Gary had done some digitizing of our photos years ago.
Scanning on a flatbed scanner is a slow process but I’ve set my sights on two different items:
- a scanner that scans actual negatives from 35mm cameras. I kept a box full of negatives from my own photos and research shows that scanning the negatives is the best method. Something like this Magnasonic scanner.
- A scanner that can work faster than a flatbed scanner. If I had a spare $600 I might be enticed to buy one that scans a stack of 30 photos at 2 seconds a photo but I might be better suited with a $200 scanner that lets me feed in photos from the top like this one.