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Get someone to do it for you? Probably cheaper than buying a scanner, and they’ll have better kit
E.g. (I’ve never used them, they were just linked from a Which article)
https://www.digitizemedia.co.uk/
duncs
A friend died recently and his daughter has asked if I can put together some kind of photo slideshow thing for a service. I'd assumed they were digitised when I said of course but naturally they're not.
She's asked if I can come up for a day and work on it instead of sending them out, as his wife is anxious about the whole thing.
What's a fast, decent quality, repeatable/consistent way to digitise a lot of prints of varying sizes and qualities?
I presume my obvious options are:
Photograph using a phone with a scanner app though this seems a bit fiddly and inconsistent.
Photograph with a camera on a tripod/arm facing down (I have lots of video equipment but am limited on stills to a Fuji X100V (so a fixed 35mm)
Buy a scanner. I'd rather not but I'd probably need to buy a small tripod rather than lug one of my big cine ones up so some expense is fine if there's something under 150 that would do a much better job than photos.
Anything else?