My wife and I* scanned 4000+ film prints with an Epson scanner I bought in frustration at not finding a well regarded negative scanner. It took a weekend. They're untagged except by any writing on the film packs or the photos themselves.
It isn't that big of a deal. I'd do it for pay for other people if someone absolutely needed it, but it isn't that hard. 100GB including the static gallery site I set up, currently in glacier and on two NAS.
I am confused. Is that Epson scanner specifically for photos, or did you just use a regular document scanner and the document feeder happened to work with photos? Or did you actually do it manually?
i could have sworn i mentioned it was a photo scanner, specifically, but i didn't. Luckily i mentioned it elsewhere recently and it was in my browser history. I have 0 complaints for what i used it for, which was to immediately and finally back up all of my family photos.
that didn't exist in 2017 when we did these scans - all the negative scanners were approaching $5000 or more, and were very fiddly and manual. However they did give great output. The epson print scanner did great, though, and there was no fiddling. Put prints in the top, push a button, collect prints from the bottom 15 seconds later, type a folder/collection name, repeat the process.
good to see there's a competitive negative scanner in the sphere, now!
It isn't that big of a deal. I'd do it for pay for other people if someone absolutely needed it, but it isn't that hard. 100GB including the static gallery site I set up, currently in glacier and on two NAS.