Have your important family, business or club photographs, slides, negatives and personal documents scanned as quality, high resolution images and digitalised to a flash drive.
All scanning is manual NOT automated and each item is individually scanned and edited on a high performance photo scanner. No work is outsourced.
All images are scanned as high resolution, lossless tiff format then converted to 700ppi JPEG format with minimal information loss.
All images are processed as a RAW file unless otherwise commissioned.
While we scan and archive large collections we are not a shoe box scanning service or fast scanning service. All work is individually hand processed to a archival standard.
What’s Included?
Image Rotation
Basic brightness adjusted on request
Colour enhancement offered for faded images (an additional cost) $1.00 per item
Colour cast removal where possible on request. (additional cost) 50c per item.
Conversion to black & white on request.
(additional cost) 50c per item
Images are scanned as high resolution tiff files (lossless) then reduced to 700ppi and saved on your memory device as JPEG files. The prices quoted here do not include any restoration work on the images. The only modification done to the image files are negatives converted to a positive image before saving to memory stick. (Unless otherwise requested). All images are at the original size unless enlargement is requested. This incurs a small charge of 45c per image.
* Slides and Negatives are individually cropped so there is no loss of the image. This is a raw scan and does not include enhancements or colour cast removal unless requested by you.
Pricing Rates
A minimum order of $20 applies.
Photo Album Handling Fee
$15
Resizing of Images
45c per image
Colour Cast Removed where possible
50c per item
35mm slides originals - RAW images
Please note that some brands can have a blue or rose colour cast or degrade over time.
$3.00 per item - 25 original items $2.50ea 50 or more originals – $2.00ea, 100+ $1.50c ea, Bulk over 150+ images $1.00c per image,
Photographs (loose) - RAW images up to A4 size
Over time photographs fade or develop colour cast deviations,
$3.50 per item -25 original items $2.50ea 50 or more originals – $2.00 ea Bulk over 100+ $1.75ea. Over 150 items $1.20 ea
Antique photographs $5.00ea (Daguerreotype, Ambrotype, Collodion Prints before 1900, Tintype/Ferrotype, Early Albumen Prints).
Larger than A4 photographs are professionally stitched this involves multiple scans of the image at $3.50 per scanned image.
STITCHING FEE starts from $10.00 per image, (plus the scan of $3.50 per image) stitching fee depends on the complexity of the photograph being stitched. (and is addition to the above price of scanning the images). Please let us know the size of the photograph on inquiry as stitching may be required and require special handling and processing.
Negatives (strips only) - RAW images
Please note some film degrade over time,
$3.50 per item -25 original items – $3.00ea
50 or more originals – $2.50 ea
Bulk over 100+ items - $1.75 ea Over 200 items $1.00 ea
All negatives must be in strips not rolls. If your negatives are buckled or curled a good scan may not be possible.
Photographs in Albums - RAW images
(a handling fee of $15.00 applies per album)
$3.20 ea (25 or more items - $3.00 ea, 50+ $2.50ea, 100+ - $2.00ea, 300+ - $1.50ea).
Collage Boards - RAW images
(a handling fee of $20 exists per board)
Normally prices as per album photos BUT ON INSPECTION (as sometimes multiple images may overlap) and require special handling and manipulation in the scanning process.
USB Flash Drive Storage
USB Flash Drives range with a capacity from 16GB to 32GB pricing from $7.50 to $8.50 this includes the conversion from tiff to JPEG files.
What Does This Include?
Each item is saved in JPEG format, if you require another format there is no extra charge, but you will need to request this prior to archiving.
The original materials are scanned at a high resolution then reduced to 700ppi (slides and negatives are scanned at a very high resolution). If a higher resolution than 700dpi is required this must be requested prior to archiving. Most photo printing locations accept 300 dpi. Your images may have to be reduced in resolution by these locations.
The size of the saved image is determined by the original image and will not be resized unless requested. *Resizing incurs a cost of 45c per image.
The files are saved to a flash drive (or DVD if requested).
What Is Not Included?
A slide-show presentation is not included in the above.
Restoration is not included.
Images are saved in JPEG format as this allows the maximum number of images to be saved and the fastest loading time.
USB flash drive prices are dependent on memory size.
Additional USB Flash Drives - $5 handling PLUS price of the Flash Drive.