Negative Scanning

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Scanning negatives while maintaining the highest quality has never been easier – or more important – than it is today. Once your negatives are digitized, you can easily: safeguard your legacy, relive your past, and pass your stories on from one generation to the next. You can also combine your new digital images with the coolest photo sharing technologies on the market. However, if you are going to get your negative film scanned, do it right the first time.

Fortunately, you have come to the right place for negative scanning. With an experienced team, superior quality, lowest prices, and a revolutionary “smart choice” scan plan, ScanCafe is your one stop shop for unmatched negative scanning.

Negative Scanning Experts

ScanCafe provides first-class negative film scanning using the most advanced scanning technology. We scan 35mm, 126, 127, and medium format. We also scan black & white negatives, despite the fact that they require very time consumming post processing.

Negative Scanning Benefits

• Best scan results generally come from negatives
• Negatives are easy and cheap to ship
• Customer can keep original prints on display in home or office
• Negative scans have the best prices

Scanning Negatives is the Smart Choice

Scanning negatives is our best value for highest quality and lowest price. You will get superior, 3000 dpi scans for just 19 cents an image. Just as important, our revolutionary “smart choice” model allows you to delete up to 50% of the scanned images that you do not want to keep. This is wonderful for scanning negatives because you no longer have to look at each negative under the light to see which images you want to scan prior to shipping them. This saves you untold hours of labor – just enter your order, print out the shipping label, slap it on the box, and off you go!

Negative Scanning Quality

The ScanCafe difference shines through in our scan quality. We scan at the optimal resolution of 3000 dpi and remove all dust and scratches with Kodak Digital ICE™ on both negatives and slides. More importantly, included in our low prices, all of your images are manually color corrected by trained artists and animation designers which is important for negative and photo scanning. Our technical team in Bangalore, India also removes red eye and crops the digital images. Finally, if you have images that are in really bad shape, we offer photo restoration services at industry best prices.

Negative Scanning Quiz

To help you see the benefits of using ScanCafe and determine if our services are right for you, we have created the following simple quiz:

• Are you a busy person ?                                       O Yes            O No
• Are you price conscious?                                     O Yes            O No
• Are you scanning more than 5,000 negatives?      O Less          O More

If you plan on scanning less than 5,000 negatives you should definitely use ScanCafe because it will be cheaper than buying a quality negative scanner on your own – not to mention the cost of your time.

If you have more than 5,000 negatives, you should go ahead and use ScanCafe as well, unless of course you have A LOT of free time. For instance, it takes at least 4 minutes to scan and color correct each negative. For 5,000 negatives, that is going to take you 20,000 minutes or 333+ hours non-stop. If you work every Saturday for six hours to scan your images, It will take you over one year to complete the job. Double that time drain if you have 10,000 images or more.

Negative Scanning Testimonials

A great way to see how happy our customers are is to read their testimonials or view the ScanCafe home page for the latest and greatest announcements.

Scanning Black & White Negatives

We have outstanding black and white negative scan services, but black and white scanning requires incremental manual effort from our scanning technicians. You may not know it but just about every one of your black & white negatives will require significant restoration work to remove scratches and dust particles. This restoration can only be done manually as the most cutting edge imaging software such as Digital ICE won’t work on black and white negatives. More information can be found on our black and white negative scans page.

Tips for Packing Negatives

While the actual scanning step is the most important part of scanning negatives, packing is also important. ScanCafe has scanned and shipped over 8,000,000+ images, so check out our tips for packing negatives.

Frequently Asked Questions for Negative Scanning

Based on our experience, ScanCafe has developed a great list of FAQs for negative scanning that everyone can use.

Tips for Picking a Negative Scanning Service

ScanCafe is a first-class company, and we want to be partners with our customers. If this is your first search for a negative scanning service, we have provided a simple check list to help you select the right negative scanning service.

Tips for Buying a Negative Film Scanner or Slide Scanner

Some customers have asked us about our scanning equipment so we decided to post our criteria for buying negative scanner and slide scanner. In our case, we went with top rated Nikon 5000ED and Nikon 9000ED scanners.

How to Scan Negatives

Scanning negatives is not an easy task. ScanCafe has scanned well over 8,000,000+ images, and we have developed an expertise around scanning negatives. However, if you are thinking about scanning negatives on your own, you can find out more information on how to scan negatives.