Nice photo's!
Scanning the negatives indeed is costly.
This reminds me of a story of what we had in our family. My granddad lived with my father's family in France in the 50's. Doing quite well, they enjoyed beach holidays in the Cote D'azur, Monaco and so on.
In the inheritance were a few dozen boxes full of negatives, all marked "holiday year xyz". We had the scanned, hoping to be able to reduce them to a few interesting ones that we could the email to the whole family, giving them all a few nice Family shots to hang on a wall (or stuff in a drawer).
So, after picking up the originals and the scanned photo's on a USB stick, we gathered the next weekend with a couple of relatives that live close to us to review the ~1000 pictures. We were setup with chips, beer wine and all good to go.
Starting the slide deck we got a nice story of packing the car, driving around very empty countryside, nice scenic views, and the first campsite.
Next day was beach day. So were most the following 14 days.
We were all hoping for that nice family shot with some scenic background.
What we got however was more of a Miss Universe contest!
Turns out half of the pictures, 500 of them or so, are of ladies in bathing suits that no-one recognized as any member of the family!
Yes, we do have that nice family picture.
We also have a very in depth research into 50's bathing attire.
