Pogue for The Times on ScanMyPhotos.com:
The company’s Web site offers copious photos of the right and wrong ways to pack up your pictures. The bottom line is, ScanMyPhotos will do the scanning. But you have to do the prep work, and it’s not insubstantial.
Fortunately, the results are well worth it. The company ships your original photos back to you by Priority Mail (two or three days), complete with a nicely custom-labeled DVD. It contains standard 300-dots-per-inch JPEG photo files, ready for copying to your computer. There’s no option to get TIFF files instead, and the JPEG files are moderately compressed to fit the disc. In other words, these are not scans suitable for billboards.
Still, the scans look very good — not as sharp as digital photos, but pretty much what you’d expect of scanned ones (you can see samples at nytimes.com/personaltech).
ScanMyPhotos probably isn’t getting rich by charging only $50 for 1,000 photos. Clearly, the real money is in the optional services, some of which are ingenious and nearly irresistible.
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