Turn Slides Into Digital Versions Effortlessy
These companies will turn your stockpile of old media—colour photos, slides and negatives—into new digital versions, saving you both time and effort.
SAVE TIME & EFFORT | What’s on your bucket list? Exotic travel? Learning how to play an instrument or speak a foreign language? What about creating a digital inventory of the gazillions of snapshots and slides you’ve got stashed in drawers and boxes around your house? That fun (hahaha) undertaking is on my list for posterity (plus iPad) reasons but was buried near the bottom until a recent article in the NYT persuaded me to push it to the top. Written by my tech journalist crush Farhad Manjoo, it outlined the various options for converting all manner of old media—photos, videos, cassette tapes, paper documents—to new digital versions. Yeah! Just what I’d been looking for, a relatively painless not-so-expensive fix.
Manjoo’s piece highlighted devices you can use to convert analog materials to digital forms, plus two companies—ScanCafe and digmypics—that will do the work for you. Both companies, which are based in the U.S. and take orders from Canada, will digitally preserve whatever you send them: slides, negatives, snapshots, videotapes and surper8 movie film, correcting major flaws in your images by balancing colours, removing scratches, undoing things like red eye.
Not Fade Away
Prices seem very reasonable considering the time and effort that would be required to do this work yourself. (If you have anywhere near the number of old slides, negs and photos I do, you’ll understand why this kind of service feels like a godsend.) For example, ScanCafe charges 29 cents to scan a slide or snapshot (they outsource this work to India); digmypics charges 39 cents for the same work, which is done in the US. Compare these prices to the 99-plus cents per slide charged by some scanning companies in Canada.
Turnaround time for processing your slide/snapshot order is seven to 25 days for digmypics and four to eight weeks for ScanCafe. Both companies allow you to scroll through all of your images online and delete (a.k.a. not pay for) up to 20 percent of the scans you don’t want. —Ruth Rainey
For more information, visit scancafe.com or digmypics.com
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