E6 slide film processing - where to go?

[Overgaard]

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Our local lab closed their E6 service now and I am looking for another E6 lab to develop slide film.

 

I was thinking if any knew of a good lab within UPS range of Denmark who can also do GOOD scans and eventually FTP these.

 

My nearest lab within Denmark is a 3 days turnaround and I would loose some packages over a period of a year. And their scans are expensive and not that good.

 

I guess some of you have to use labs far away and might know some good ones?

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[andybarton]

I feel your pain, brother...

 

My E6 lab charges £60/€100/$120 for decent scans of E6 film. And they're still only 8-bit jpgs!

 

It's getting to the stage where the cost of Pro-Lab scanning is waaaay beyond prohibitive.

 

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[rafael_macia]

Here in Manhattan, I can get great 75MB scans from 4x5 transparancies for $20 each. They are done on an Imacon so the quality is fine. Turn around time would be about 2 weeks.

I usually give the scanner guy about 50 at a time.

 

35mm scans I do on a Minolta 5400 Scan Elite II which is a wonderful machine. The small format scans I do at about 55 MB, more than that on 35 seems to work against the results, by magnifying the grain.

 

PM if anyone needs help with this.

 

Rafael

[LKSC]

I have Kodachrome drum scanned by Calypso Imaging in California and they do a great job: US$39 per frame for a 200MB 16-bit scan on a Heidelberg Tango.

 

They also provide a bulk scanning service (that I have not yet tried) on an Imacon 949. If you have 100 or more mounted slides, they can scan each at 120MB, 16-bit for US$1.50 each.