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Archive Your Old Photos with a Scanner

Face it: film photography is going away. These days, everyone is shooting their photos digitally and storing them on their computer. You don’t need to have huge photo albums to store your memories anymore, only needing to print out your absolute favorites for framing while leaving the rest on a hard drive for casual browsing. But what about all of your older photos, the ones you took before the dawn of this brave new era of digital photography? Well, for those, you’ll want a scanner to get them up to snuff with all your newer shots.

Might I recommend the HP Scanjet G4050 Photo Scanner for all your photo scanning needs? It’s the perfect device for archiving all the hard copies you have of your old photos, making sure you always have them no matter what happens to the physical copies. It’s super easy to use, allowing you to scan pictures in with just the push of a button. Give yourself a couple of afternoons working on this project and then you’ll have a complete digital archive of all your pictures, past and present. What could be better than that?

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Published by Adam on April 11th, 2008 and listed in Computers.

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rick 04/15/2008 10:21 AM 1 point
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What do you recommend for scanning negs and slides? The flatbed scanners I've seen with neg/slide attachments don't seem to do a good job. Is the Nikon Coolscan V the only option?

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Kelly 04/15/2008 10:28 AM 1 point
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Do any of these have a feeder, so you can put a stack of photos on it and let it run vs. the dreary task of scanning one photo at a time?

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Richard Tedrow 04/15/2008 10:40 AM 1 point
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Excellent question, Kelly, I'd love to have the answer, too. Esp. if the feeder takes different sized pics in the same feed group.

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LBP 05/29/2008 11:37 AM 1 point
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There is no feeder on this, unfortunately. But it is definitely a nice unit for scanning negatives. Scans come out clear and bright.

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Mark 05/29/2008 12:02 PM 1 point
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This is a pretty good scanner. Has a nice negative attachment too
http://www.jr.com/epson/pe/EPS_4490PHOTO/

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Ted 05/29/2008 12:09 PM 1 point
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I need information on how one can scan 35 mm slides. Is there a way to scan several at one time ? If so, how many. Is there an adapter included with light source ? Is there a feeder, and how does that work ? Please give us some information. I am interested.

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RNYK 05/29/2008 12:22 PM 1 point
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Ted: You can scan up to sixteen 35 mm slides or 30 negative frames. There is no feeder, although you can place multiple photos on the bed at once. The maximum scan size is 8.5" x 12.3". The adapter is built in.

Hope this helps!

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Vitit Kantabutra 06/01/2008 02:31 PM 1 point
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To my surprise, today's (or even last year's) $150 flatbed scanners work much better than dedicated, $550 film scanners from the turn of the millennium, in terms of scan quality (color and sharpness). However, the scans are still slow.

In my estimation, the quality bottleneck now is in the slides themselves.

Also, J&R advertised that you just need "a couple of afternoon" to scan all your old photos. Not true at all! It takes half an hour easily to just work with each photo.

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John Howard 11/14/2008 07:08 PM 1 point
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Does anyone know if the all HP Software that comes with this scanner work with Windows Vista? The HP website mentions Vista compatibility, but I wonder if it would be like my HP PSC2210v all in one scanner. It works with Vista, but to a very limited degree. One of my favorite features, scanning an article to a PDF file does not work. In fact the entire HP Director software will not run in Vista.
Thanks,
Jon

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Atane 11/17/2008 09:57 AM 1 point
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John, it should work fine with Vista.

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