Film & Slide Scanning
If you've found a storage box of old slides and film, get it scanned & digitised with Lazer Photos & Cameras! Film and slides can be susceptible to fungal damage, scratching, and general degradation over time, so it's important to preserve them with digital copies. Plus, it makes it easier to share them with your friends and family! We can transfer your digitised pictures to a USB device or email them to you via a Google Drive link.
Film & slide scanning pricing
Our pricing structure for film & slide scanning is outlined below. We don't like to do our scanning work quick and dirty; we want you to get the best-looking results out of your collection. Hence, our pricing structure includes the work of cleaning/dusting the slides, colour corrections, and lighting adjustments.| Slide & Negative Scanning Service | Pricing |
| 1-5 frames | $5.00/frame |
| 6-50 frames | $3.50/frame |
| 51-100 frames | $3.00/frame |
| 101-200 frames | $2.50/frame |
| 201+ frames | $2.00/frame |
| Other fees | Pricing |
| Google Drive link (active for 2 weeks) |
$5.00 |
| 16GB USB drive (with free transfer) | $19.99 |
| Transfer files to customer-supplied USB drive | $10.00 |
If you have some photos that are damaged or degraded - that's OK! We can also offer our professional retouching & restoration service for an additional fee. Click here for more details.
Frequently asked questions
- Why should I get you to scan my slide/negative/print collection? Surely I can just scan them with my home printer for cheaper?
- Two reasons! Firstly, we don't just use any old scanner for our digitisation work - we use professional flatbed scanners. These work at a much higher resolution than the scanner on your home printer (resulting in clearer scans), along with a host of other benefits including more precise colour & tonal reproduction, and built-in dust removal technology. Secondly, our scanning fees also include basic post-processing services as well. Our team use their skills and experience with industry-standard software to correct colour shifts and adjust brightness to get your scans looking the best they can be. That's why so many of our customers rely on us to digitise their family's collections.
- How long does it take for you to scan my slides or negatives?
- This depends on both our current workload, and the size and complexity of your job. If you just need a couple slides scanned, we can usually do it same day. Larger jobs of hundreds of frames may take a couple of weeks to complete. If you have a timeframe or deadline you need to meet, discuss it with us so we can let you know what we might be able to do for you.
- What resolution do you scan at?
- We typically scan slides and negatives at 1200 dpi as this provides a good-quality scan for digital use, although we can scan at a higher resolution (up to 6400 dpi) depending on your needs (e.g. if you want a make a large print from the scan).
- My slides have extensive fungal damage, can you clean it off?
- Unfortunately, fungus & mold often causes irreversible damage to the emulsion layers of slides and negatives that can't be cleaned off. This is why we recommend that you get your collections digitised before any signs of fungal growth appear! Superficial fungal damage can often be mostly filtered out in our post-scanning editing, however if your slide has extensive damage, we do offer a restoration service for an additional fee.
- The colours of my slides look very off when I look at them, is there any way you can improve it?
- Of course! Our scanning service includes colour adjustments, so if your slides show any colour shifts (e.g. blue or red), we can adjust the colours to be closer to how they were meant to be!
- I've found/inherited a large collection of family slides & negatives, and I have no way of figuring out which ones are important enough to digitise or print?
- It can be difficult to get a good look at slides and negatives with the naked eye. We do have a slide viewer available for use in-store or for hire (local pickup only; subject to availability), as well as slide viewers available for purchase in-store or online. Our viewers have a light built-in as well as a magnifier to help you get a better view of slides and decide which ones you'd like to keep.
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