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.

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.:winkwink:

no it doesn't

ah...good...

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)

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?

So informative, thanks.

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

Your through rate is impressive.:)

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.