[MacDV] Price 4 Slide Show

[ShirleyK]

Have you ever figured out what you earn per hour (approximately) doing 
this? How about getting customers? How do you do that? Word of mouth? I 
suppose you get a variety of source images as far as quality. Do you 
spend significant time restoring bad photos and cleaning up dust and 
scratches that were on the film? I've been working with my mother's 
negatives, many from the 1940's. I can knock most of them out in 
probably 10 minutes or less, but there are a few that don't go nearly 
that quick. How do you handle that when you've got the scan on the 
monitor and now you see how much work it's going to take to make it 
look good?

I'm sure that sounds like a lot of money to the client, but to me, it 
seems like minimum wage for my time. Still, if you're retired and enjoy 
doing it, why not pick up a few bucks for it too.

Shirley


On Dec 17, 2004, at 5:58 PM, darrell wrote:

> Well I'll throw my two cents worth in here. I've concluded that 
> building DVD sideshows is worth
> $250 for approx. 50 images and $400 for 90-100 images. I like to break 
> it down on a per image basis.
> $3.00 per picture and then the rest of the cost goes for encoding, 
> burning, and packaging. I also give my
> clients a CD with their edited stills. Mostly I am scanning their 
> prints or 35 mm film and preparing the
> images in PS. Canadian Funds by the way.
>
> Later
>
> darrell padlesky
> edmonton
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