Costco Scans

Scans are between 3.2 and 4.8 mgs depending on the density and whether its color. I pay a little over $4 bucks at Costco for C41 negs and the CD scan. Plus they index print on the CD face itself. very handy.
 
I think I shall try their C-41 and scanning. I am shooting more film now than I have time to scan on my Coolscan IV.

Is it as good as described here? Also, how do they handle the negatives? Can I ask them not to cut or cut into specific length (strips of 6)? All of these things probably depend on the individual employees operating the Frontier. Anyone uses the Costco in Brooklyn?
 
Before the M8, I would typically have my film processed and scanned to a disc. Costco is reasonable from a cost standpoint, but the scans are medium resolution and they do not handle film the way you might expect. For high resolution scans I use a Nikon slide scanner (Coolscan V ED) should the need ever arise.

But I haven’t shot with film in over a year.
 
I have used Costo occasionally. My impression is that they are NOWHERE close the the quality of my own scans (used to own a Coolscan 5000). If your slide is under/over exposed, the picture is doomed. BUT..... They are probably the best scans you can get for that money and time. I am putting scanning on the back burner until I get a 9000.
 
imush said:
I think I shall try their C-41 and scanning. I am shooting more film now than I have time to scan on my Coolscan IV.

Is it as good as described here? Also, how do they handle the negatives? Can I ask them not to cut or cut into specific length (strips of 6)? All of these things probably depend on the individual employees operating the Frontier. Anyone uses the Costco in Brooklyn?
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My Costco will handle the neg anyway I want.
 
My Costco used to do a fine job. 6MP scans of very good quality.
No more - now they give me the same crappy 2MP scans like everyone else...
 
I finally got my 1st scans back today, and I can view them, but can't upload them. The uploading instructions written on the CD are in English and Korean, so I don't know if it's my poor PC skills or a bad translation from Korean to English that's my problem.

The instructions on the CD say "IF Setup does not automatically start (it does not) "Click Start, then Run and type D:/ START HERE (where 'D' is the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive)".

I've tried several differant combinations of "ping 168.126.63.1 -t:" (is that the above- mentioned drive letter?) and "D:/ START HERE" but to no avail.

Any advice?

Many thanks,
Bill
 
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Bill,
I just import the folder fro the CD from my editing program. If the disc "auto runs", I close it and then open the files from--in my case--either GIMP or FastStone, copy the ones I want to a folder on my computer and go from there.
Rob
 
I'm not a member of Costco, but am at Sam's Club. They will develop the film, scan to CD and produce an index print for $2.99 in about 30 minutes while I roam the store. I, too, am surprised at the quality vs. price and time. At the two stores I use I ask them to keep the film uncut, handle it with gloves and roll the film against the curl and put it in a film canister. When I get home the reverse curled film is ready to be cut and sleeved. One of the stores can process C41 120 film, but cannot scan it. It costs $3.60 a roll to do it and they sleeve it. The local Ritz/Wolf camera store can also do the 120, but charges almost twice as much.
 
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