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I appreciate your post, and I also recognize your advice to pay someone to do it as being pretty sound. But I'm also stubborn and cheap.
I have invented a method in my mind that will reduce the picture taking time to a couple of seconds per image, plus the time to load each negative strip of 4-5 images. Loading the strip will take about 15 seconds.
The real time consumer will be the color adjustment in GIMP. I did half a dozen more image tests over the weekend, and can now do one image in about a minute. Still longer than I want, but it's getting better. I'm recreating scanner speeds now. I'm going to play around with your link and see if I can make a tool in GIMP that will speed things up.
My plan is to use my LCD monitor as a consistent light source. I'm going to make a holder for a sheet of glass a few inches in front of the monitor. The idea is that I can slide this whole large sheet of glass sandwich back and forth in the holder so the camera can stay still on a tripod and keep a fixed zoom and fixed focus.
I think taking a picture of each image individually will ultimately be faster than digitally selecting and saving the individual images in GIMP. So that another reason to do it this way.
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