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Hi Jalal -

I would suggest that you send the slides or negatives out to a scanning service like the one that I own (Pixmonix - http://www.pixmonix.com).

For about $1 per image, you will get high resolution (4000 PPI) scans with ICE, color and exposure correction. The project will be completed much faster than you could ever do it yourself and quite likely at a lower overall cost and better quality. You will have the high resolution TIFF files for further manipulation in Photoshop/etc., but you should expect to get digital images that require no additional work for almost all uses.

There are occasions where poeple want to go the extra miles and have slides or negatives drum scanned. I believe that this is very rare. My suggestion is that you take the fast and inexpensive path (i.e., ~$1 per image). Then, only if you have a particularly special image that may benefit from the wet mounting you can send it out to a high-end drum scanning lab (at a cost of tens of dollars per image).

We give new customers 15 free 35mm scans to try our services out. I hope that we can earn your business!

Best regards --

--Steve
Pixmonix Slide and Negative Scanning Services
 
https://www.shearwater.com/products/perdix-ai/

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