Scanning and encoding facilities - could I make cash? (Acacia please dont read)

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  • Krome
    Confirmed User
    • Jul 2001
    • 2851

    #1

    Scanning and encoding facilities - could I make cash? (Acacia please dont read)

    I have the facility to process 2500 slides per day and do video encoding.

    Is there a market for this and what would people be prepared to pay per slide etc.
  • LadyMischief
    Orgasms N Such!
    • Sep 2002
    • 18135

    #2
    I don't believe either of these activities have anything to do with Acacia :P I know the slides for sure don't :P

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    • Krome
      Confirmed User
      • Jul 2001
      • 2851

      #3
      Originally posted by LadyMischief
      I don't believe either of these activities have anything to do with Acacia :P I know the slides for sure don't :P
      Yeah but video encoding does have. Luckly this company will be a non profit charity for homeless cats.

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      • BRISK
        Too lazy to set a custom title
        • Feb 2003
        • 12240

        #4
        Originally posted by Krome


        Yeah but video encoding does have
        no it doesn't
        I post on GFY so that when people ask me what I do,
        I can tell them that I work with the mentally retarded.

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        • Krome
          Confirmed User
          • Jul 2001
          • 2851

          #5
          Originally posted by BRISK


          no it doesn't
          ah...good...

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          • nike
            Confirmed User
            • Oct 2002
            • 189

            #6
            What do you have that scans 2500 slides a day?

            Can you do color negative?

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            • LadyMischief
              Orgasms N Such!
              • Sep 2002
              • 18135

              #7
              Originally posted by nike
              What do you have that scans 2500 slides a day?

              Can you do color negative?
              Sounds like he has a drum scanner (do you Krome?). Usually though negatives are more finicky and take more time, therefore less volume. The color is less accurate and takes more adjustment than slides, seeing as every time you scan negatives, it has to build a color table to work from on your first neg. If the color is off, all of the scans will be so it's important to adjust that. With slides being a positive image, the color is there and the software doesn't have to build a color table. Negs are much more time-consuming However if he can't do them, I can :P

              (I should also add that some negative emulsions are more delicate and sensitive to heat than others, you are more likely to find more color variation and bleed in negs that are scanned than in slides)

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              Content Manager - orgasm.com
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              • Krome
                Confirmed User
                • Jul 2001
                • 2851

                #8
                We have NIkon 4000 ed plus the SF 200 slide feeder. We have more than one! They reckong they can process 50 per hour but that is only if you are using the crap settings. We are scanning high rez then cleaning up and optimising.

                Have a look at www.xxxguest.com for the quality. The scans on the outside are unoptimised, uncleaned and hte ones in the folder are the finished product.

                What do you think?

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                • nike
                  Confirmed User
                  • Oct 2002
                  • 189

                  #9
                  So informative, thanks.

                  We use Imacon Flextights (good name huh?), not with feeders though.

                  Your through rate is impressive.

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                  • Krome
                    Confirmed User
                    • Jul 2001
                    • 2851

                    #10
                    The great thing with the Nikon 4000 ed is the ICE package which cleans the slides as you go. The new braun for half the price with double the cabablity does not have this so the images come out shit.

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