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ABOUT US
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Convert Slides to Digital Images
We
are a small shop specializing in converting slides and negatives to high quality
digital images. We are able to give your slide conversions or negative scanning
request individual attention, providing you one of the best services in the
market. We keep you informed during the process and follow up with you when you
receive your order to ensure that you received it in good order.
We scan slides in 2x2
mounts (35mm, 126, etc.), 120 film, 4x5 film and stereo slides. We can
also scan larger formats upon request.
We also scan both color and B&W prints. We can stitch photos
together when they are too large for our scanners (Epson Expression 10000 XL).
Today's FAD (to follow the fad from other slide scanning firms)
- We DO NOT ship your pictures to another firm or
country. We do all our work in house and strive on providing you the best
service that would not be possible if your photos were shipped else where to
process.
Our Pricing
Our
prices are very simple. When you select the service you wish, we have no extra
add-on items to complete your order. You do not pay extra for CD's or DVD's or
for special attention. Think about it, you pay for the slide conversion, you
must store it one something - be it a CD or DVD. For this reason the media is
included in the price of the scan. We don't charge you extra for taking slides
out of your slides trays and putting them back in (this may be how you want to
store your slides). If they are in metal slide holders, we will remove the
slides from the holder and then place them back in the holders and trays.
You can use our "Pricing-Order
Form" to calculate you cost at anytime. This form will apply volume
discounts as well.
When you wish to have your slides remounted in plastic slide
mounts, or placed in archival sheets, we will charge you for this service, but
it is a service you have requested, not something extra automatically tacked on
to your bill that you must pay for.
When you are not sure what you will receive or about the
quality of the service, you may order our "Sampler" service offered for slides
or print scans. These are flat fee services that include shipping and the
media. You will receive the actual product (scan), and not an image shipped via
email. This will provide you a good preview of the service before sending a
large quantity of slides or prints to us.
High Quality
Digital Images Help Preserve Your Valuable Images
With our high
quality digital image scanning, old slides or 35mm color negatives of your old
photographic memories will be preserved digitally. You will easily be able to
share your new digital images with relatives and friends. By digitally scanning
your slides, color (or B&W) negatives, or prints we convert them to either JPEG
or TIFF images and then save to CD or DVD. When we your slides to digital
images, you will preserve your photos digitally and have digital images that
will not fade over time. With your new digital images of your old slides,
negatives or prints, you will be able to email, print, use in web pages, as well
as share with others electronically. Digital images can easily be used to
create digital photo albums or DVD slide shows.
High Quality
Nikon Scanning Equipment
Our
scanners
use the Digital ICE-4 Advanced system
to help digitally remove scratches and blemishes from your slides.
We scan slides and
negatives only with the finest Nikon Coolscan systems - providing protection to
your photos by using
Nikon
Proprietary LED illumination technology rather than heat emitting light bulbs.
Nikon's exclusive LED light source provides for accurate color consistency. The
Nikor ED glass lens provides helps provide sharp clear images. Our slide
scanning services help you preserve and share you photographic memories.
For large format negatives and prints, we use the Epson Expression 10000 XL
scanners and SilverFast software, providing the extremely high quality scans.
We
offer two levels of service
We
offer two levels of service. Both provide individual attention to your order:
STANDARD Service: This is the service that most people will
need. We individually air clean all slides, may individually clean a few slides
as needed, re-scan slides to provide the best quality. This is still a
semi-custom service that we provide as part of our normal service. All scanned
images are individually checked for color balance.
PREMIUM Service: In many cases you may need:
- Individual hand cleaning of all slides. You may have a lot of
slides with finger prints, mildew, etc. that need individual cleaning. Using
this service, we will individually clean all the slides needing extra cleaning
prior to scanning so as to provide you the best scan possible. All slides
scanned images are manually cropped rather than machine cropped and individually
color balanced to provide the best results.
- You may wish a higher level a scanning service. In this case
we scan all slides with multiple passes to as to improve the image quality. We
also spend more time ensuring the quality of the scanned image is the best, to
include individual cropping rather than system cropping, and limited individual
spotting of the images to remove spots, etc.
- Scanning Artwork - or similar.
If you have very high quality artwork type material that requires special
attention, please use our Premium Service. In some extremely critical cases,
you may wish to use our CUSTOM Scanning services found in our "Pricing-Order
Form."
Contact us for more info
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