Simon
Sorry, I cannot comment on the business proposition part of it; it was
one of the ways that I justified my purchase of a scanner back in 1998,
but I have not sold any scans yet ;-).
Why spend as much as that? The Minolta 5400 is only around £500 in
some places (see AP).
Where was your father in the 70s? I left Delhi in 1974 on joining the
RAF; my father was manager of the Standard Bank in Delhi, previously
manager of the Bank in Calcutta. I visited them in both places during
the school holidays and before joining the RAF.
Chris
On 17 Sep 2004, at 19:53, Simon Worby wrote:
>
> The last bit sounds like one of those horrible spam messages, doesn't
> it?
>
> It isn't, though, I promise, so read on!
>
> I'm seriously considering buying a high quality film scanner in the
> £1000 bracket (Nikon 4000 ED, to be precise). But I can't really
> justify it since I don't yet have any slides to scan, though I'm
> intending to move over to slides-only photography hence the need. My
> father has loads of old Kodachrome slides from the 70's (OM-1), mostly
> of India, and he's willing to chip in something. The plan is to scan
> them in and then send of a CD to get the best ones printed for
> display.
>
> What do folk think about the possibility of marketing film scanning to
> try to offset some of the cost of the equipment, and perhaps offer the
> service of professional printing (open an account with Peak Imaging
> (for example)) and reselling the printing side of it as an addition?
> Is there a market for this sort of thing? Would it be easy to promote
> (without spending money on advertising)? I'm not really looking into
> turning it into a business -- I think very quickly it would become
> even more boring than what I currently do for a living! I'm not even
> particularly looking for profit. More a way of justifying the
> expenditure to 'er indoors...
>
> Comments anyone?
>
> Simon
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