Negative Scanning | Cherish Your Story

Photos From Negatives

Negatives Are Buried Treasure.

We all tend to toss the negatives aside, but all your old photos were "mastered" from negatives. Well-preserved negatives most often have the highest resolution and can produce the best images. In many cases the negative produces a much better result than scanning a photo.

We Handle Your Negatives Positively.

We know negatives can be fragile and we treat them very gently. Every negative gets our white glove treatment and we only scan them manually one-at-a-time. Color correction, defect removal, and restoration are performed manually by a technician.

Included

Professional photo archivists hand scan each negative
Negatives are scanned at a minimum of 4,000 dpi, 18 megapixels, 3500 x 5200 pixels,
All negatives are dusted and cleaned before scanning
All digital images reviewed and manual retouched
Custom digital organization and grouping
Image Rotation
Scanning in Order

Scanning and Archiving Options

We offer a number of options for scanning and preserving your negatives. Our services are not "one size fits all". Many of these options are technical and we are more than glad to help with your choices depending on your objectives.

Film Formats

35 mm
110
126/127
120

Storage Format

JPG is the most common format and sufficient for almost any purpose (sharing, resizing, printing, enlargements, etc.) File size is relatively small and it is very portable between devices.

TIFF is a lossless format and preserves the most detail and information about an image for archiving. File size is large requiring more storage. It allows for virtually unlimited editing and manipulation.

Media

We can save your digitized slides to:

USB memory stick. We use name-brand only (SanDisk). Flash memory is portable and easy to copy but not stable for longer than five years.

Standard Compact Disk (CD). CD media is not stable and can deteriorate after a number of years.

M-DISK (Millennial Disc). We recommend this media for archiving. It is readable on a standard CD player and is stable with a 1,000 year media life.

Resolution

For 35mm film we scan at a minimum of 4,000 dpi (3500 x 5200 pixels). The digital photo can be enlarged up to 18" x 12" at high resolution.

Color Depth

We offer 24 bit "true" color for all JPG formatted files which codes for 16,777,216 color variations. With TIFF service 48 bit color is available which codes to over 281.5 trillion colors and preserves the ability to correct color professionally.

Uhh? I don't understand.

Not sure what you want or need? Don't really understand how all of this works?

We are here to help! Give us a call and we will be happy to walk you through the process and answer all of your questions.

High Resolution Negative Scanning

We at a minimum of 4000 dpi. This is the best resolution for archival digital images. It enables you to enlarge the images for printing.

Restoration

We bring your photos to the present by restoring them to their original clarity, color, and brilliance. All digital images are manually retouched and reviewed.

Storage Format

JPG is the most common format and sufficient for almost any purpose (sharing, resizing, printing, enlargements, etc.) File size is relatively small and it is very portable between devices.

Media

We can save your digitized slides to:

USB Memory Stick-Flash Drive

Standard Compact Disk (CD).

M-DISK (Millennial Disc). We recommend this media for archiving. It is readable on a standard CD player and is stable with a 1,000 year media life.

Customer Provided USB