Need Film Scanned.. Options???

[mexipike]

I have about 20 or 30 35mm frames that I want to get scanned at the highest quality possible but without spending a whole lot of money. Here is Austin the two options do drum scanning for about 8 bucks a frame. That's too much for me. I'm thinking about sending my negatives in to Pixmonix where the use a nikon 5000ED (I think) and charge about $0.89 a frame. That's around where my budget lies. I know the drum scans would be best but I can't afford it. I also can't afford to buy a scanner right now. So anyways I was wondering if anyone had any experience with Pixmonix, or has any other ideas for another place to get my negs scanned.
BTW my output is to make digital negatives on pictorico for pt/pd printing.

Thanks,
John

 

[Travis Nunn]

I think you'd have better luck over at Hybrid Photo
http://www.hybridphoto.com/forums/

 

[Dave Miller]

I think you'd have better luck over at Hybrid Photo
http://www.hybridphoto.com/forums/

You took the letters right of my keyboard.

 

[bob100684]

hybrid photo will have more complete answers, but I'd just like to chime in and say, if you wind up scanning quite a bit of film the costs can add quickly. Purchasing your own film scanner might be a good idea at some point. I added a coolscanV and it has since paid for itself in savings...even when I'm working as a tech, scanning=expensive!

 

[copake_ham]

Whether or not Hybrid is a better place, I'm a bit confused by the query.

If you are talking about scanning 35mm negs or slides - why would you use a drum scanner? That's for prints.

I personally use a Nikon 5000D and it is excellent. All the pics in my gallery here (whether neg or slide) were scanned with it.

I don't think you'd get anything better than that and $0.89/per is not too bad if all you have is the 30 or so.