What are you pros/prosumers using for bulk photo scanning?

[Drewski]

Curious if anyone here is converting existing photos to digital for themselves or customers. What scanner are you using? Obviously the flatbed is not efficient for large quantities of photos. I am interested in hardware opinions, not referrals for scanning services, thanks.

The Kodak PS50/80 looks interesting, but I've read it isn't well supported for Macs although there are Mac drivers listed.

Any thoughts are appreciated.

(FWIW, I'm using a Scansnap ix500 for document scanning and for low quality instamatic type photos, but not for anything that would be resized much bigger than the original 3.5x5 or so.)

 

[960design]

I use my girlfriend.

She had a digital document scan company running for a few years, but closed it a last year due to lack of demand. She used two systems, a high end Pentax camera mounted in this crazy erector set contraption. She could 'scan' about one picture a second if she had enough coffee in her.

She also used a ScanSnap S1500 ( I think that was the name ), because it 'Never jammed' as she would smile and say.

 

[glenthompson]

I scanned a bunch of old snapshots with my ScanSnap 1500m. Good enough quality for the type of pix. For higher quality consider a service like Scan Cafe. Get on their mailing list and get occasional deals. Unless you're scanning a large amount it will be cheaper.