Cool Tool: This service will digitize your old slides, negatives and photographic prints at high quality and at a very cheap price. I've been using them to scan my 30-year backlog of photographs and I have been delighted with the results. I've used other services to scan my old photos; ScanCafe is by far the best deal. Their prices are fantastic. To scan a slide is just 24 cents, a color negative 19 cents.
Here is how it works: You pack up your images and mail them to ScanCafe's headquarters in Northern California. They count them up, and repackage them before shipping the pieces to India. In India they are scanned, touched up, rotated and then privately posted to your account at their website. You then go through the images online and select which ones you'd like to keep. You are allowed to dismiss (and not pay for) up to 50% of the total for that order. You can reject images because you aren't happy with how they look online, or simply because you don't want the image. In the specific case of original photo negatives, there is no reliable way to communicate which image(s) you want on the strip, so ScanCafe will scan the entire strip of negatives. You'll have to reject the particular frames you don't want (but no more than 50% of the total order. Combine them with slides to keep your percentage down.)
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There are 3 responses to "New Life for Old Photos".
There are a couple of companies doing the same thing. One I just found that looks safe and fast is Fotobridge.com
Posted by: Sheila at November 8, 2007 1:52 AM
Thanks for the information!
My mom used a service similar to this, ScanDigital (http://www.scandigital.com) and they did some great stuff!
Definitely a time saver.
Posted by: dan at April 3, 2008 11:19 PM
I heard they send your photos to India to be scanned. I am a bit uncomfortable about sending my photos overseas.
I found this site called www.briteroots.com to do my photos. They are relatively new, but affordable. Only 10 cents per photo. I got a DVD with my images and they archive all my photos online for free. Just a thought.
Posted by: John Wells at November 15, 2009 1:43 PM
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