1000memories (YC S10) Is About To Fill Facebook With Gen X’s Embarrassing Photos

Disclosure - My company (PhotoScanning.ca) scans photos in bulk in Canada<p>I have run extensive tests with DSLR cameras, trying to approach the level of quality that you'd get from an entry level scanner. My research project in uni was on this topic. It just isn't there yet, even with these prosumer cameras and high quality lenses. The concept is good, and it works for a $30,000 hasselblad, but this will produce brutal copies from an iPhone 4S.<p>I'd love it if this was possible in any reasonable form as I'd abandon scanning and go to this method. In a millisecond.<p>Trying to justify that it is OK based on a 550 DPI is ridiculous as well - sure, the photo is large enough, but the optics inside the camera are not.<p>Do your own tests and see, but this is gimmicky to the extreme

I highly recommend an inexpensive desktop photo-oriented scanner, such as the Epson Perfection V600 Photo Scanner. With a list price of $200, it can handle prints, negatives, and transparencies (slides) at resolutions high enough to capture a lot of detail. Its driver software does a good job correcting color of faded prints and negatives, and it works with Windows or Mac. I've scanned about 12,000 negatives this year with one. (I'm a baby boomer who took a lot of pictures, as did my parents, in-laws, and grandparents.)

Many of us with embarrassing photos from the 90s have already had them all transferred to CD (at the print shop, at the time they were developed.)<p>In fact I have more photos on CD than I have in print, because being a geek I have been more careful to preserve my digital media than anything printed.

What happens to the date you put in? How hard is it to get a JPEG with backdated EXIF?