Negative Scanning
ScanDigital will rejuvenate your decaying negatives with our first class digital conversion service. Traditionally, negatives have served as an imaging safety net in case anything happened to the actual printed photograph. However, negatives run the identical risks as their printed copy and deteriorate just as fast. The only way to guarantee the safety of your memories is to preserve them digitally. Use our negative scanning service to convert your old negatives into newly digital positive images.
Not just 35mm Negatives
Our innovative negative scanning process prevents you from having to unroll film to sort through disorganized strips in hopes of finding your pictures. By transferring your negatives to digital files, we allow you to view your images in their optimal state from your computer or your television. While 35mm negatives are the most common type of negative, ScanDigital is able to digitally convert many other formats. In addition to 35mm, our negative scanning service also accepts APS, 110, 120, 126, 127, medium and large format negatives (sized bigger than 2x2).
We manually scan all of your negatives using our secure process. We accept color and black & white negatives in all formats (click here to learn more about our black & white negative scanning process).
Protect Your Images
Choosing to convert your negatives to digital format protects your pictures from dust, decay, scratches and other damaging effects of time. You will also never have to worry about your collection of negatives being lost or damaged due to fire, flooding or any other Unforeseen circumstances.
Dust
Decay, including color shifts and fading
Scratches
Damaging effects of time
Loss
Damage
Unforseen circumstances including fires
and flooding
Handling Your Precious Negatives
Every negative is treated and processed with the utmost precision and care. All negatives are individually cleaned, scanned and edited by hand to ensure the highest quality possible. We clean every strip of negatives with compressed air and a lint free cloth prior to scanning. Each negative is scanned with the highest quality scanning equipment. We use Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 scanners for 35mm, 110 & 126 negatives. With Digital ICE technology built-in, these Nikon scanners are the top of the line and necessary for optimal negative scanning. Our highly skilled technicians digitally repair each image, including cropping, rotating, color correction, red-eye and dust removal. Your newly digitized images are loaded to CD, DVD, or external hard drive.
Negatives vs. Photos
If you have both your printed photos and your negatives, we usually suggest scanning the negatives. A photo is like a copy of the negative, so scanning a photo is essentially making a copy of a copy. Our top of the line equipment can repair and enhance the image either way, but it's always best to start with the purest image available.
Our Negative Scanning Process
- Cleaning and Preparation
All negatives are individually cleaned with compressed air and a lint free cloth - Scanning
Each negative is scanned using the highest quality equipment - Editing
Our highly skilled technicians repair each image, including cropping, rotation, color correction and red-eye removal - Loaded to a Flash Drive or Hard Drive
Your newly digitized images are loaded to an external USB Drive - Enjoy
Enjoy your digital memories with friends and loved ones!
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Questions?
Local: 1.317.863.3986
Business Hours (Eastern):
Monday - Friday: 9 AM - 6 PM
Saturday: 10AM - 4PM
Sunday: Closed
Your memories are safe
Through our integration with UPS and our world class EssentialTracker system for internal tracking, your order is carefully monitored from door to door
We scan by hand
To ensure the highest quality and to protect every image, we will never use an auto-feeder to process your materials.
Testimonials
"Just this afternoon, I was in Target, and a man was asking the clerk in the photo department if they would scan about 700 photos for him. The reply was "no." I had my ScanDigital disc with me, making a few photos to reference for a "digital" project. I turned around, gave him the 1 minute sell job on your company, and he recorded your info. The people I have talked to inside your company were great -- thorough, clear, and "positive" (not in a sappy way). Their demeanor, in tandem with your website and customer feedback made me comfortable with trusting my 40+ year old slides and photos with your company. Happy to say that with your help, I got my Mom to cry on Christmas morning. I had used your work to help with a photo book of our family, and she was deeply touched. So, technically and all that other stuff you likely know how good you are, but, since I am not super technical, I will focus on what you allow me to do, and that is to create something I wanted to do, but couldn't have done without you. I will use your service again (another project in the works), and I have recommended ScanDigital to family, friends, and strangers."
- Kambia - Los Angeles, CA - January 2008 -
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