FAQs
Q1: Why choose ScantoDigital? How do you provide the highest quality at the lowest price?
A1: We only offer high quality scans (600dpi for paper photos, 300dpi minimum for negatives and slides) and offer one low price for each of these. Our service is designed to provide you with only high quality scans because you want to spend your money on scanning only once. Our pricing is all inclusive; there are no hidden costs for the DVD, higher resolution, or image restoration. At Scantodigital, we take great pride in our work, as does every single technician of ScantoDigital.
Q2: Is ScantoDigital safe? I am worried about parting with my priceless memories.
A2: Your order is safe with us. That’s backed by our experience safely handling over 150 million images, as well as our unique Safe Handling Guarantee (described in detail in our privacy policy).
We’ve pioneered a number of industry safety practices–all the way from door to door tracking for your order, to how we assign, handle, and scan your order.
One last safety point: since we scan your photos by hand, there’s no risk that your photos will get stuck and damaged inside an auto-fed machine. (Those types of machines can jam, just like a copier, fax machine, or printer). So not only does our hand-scanning approach give you better quality, it makes your order safer, too.
Q3: What format of originals do you scan?
A3: We scan the following formats:
• 35mm negatives
• 35mm slides
• paper pictures up to 12×16 inches
• 120 (medium) format film
We also scan children’s art work, post cards, newspaper stories, etc up to A3 size
Q4: Why not scan my pictures myself?
A4: Let’s say you want to scan 500 pictures, it will cost you:
• 40 monotonous hours of scanning (5 months if you dedicated 2 hrs/weekend)
• about £250 for a high quality scanner like the Canoscan 9000F Mark2 Flatbed Scanner
• about £1500 for a high quality negative scanner like the NIKON CoolScan LS 8000ED
Q5: Why scan/digitise my old photos, negatives and slides?
A5: Memories are priceless! Most people have thousands of pictures in different formats (paper prints, slides, negatives). Scanning them enables you to:
• Preserve them on digital media like USB, DVDs and CDs forever
• Get rid of your clutter and easily organise all your pictures
• Sort them, date them and label them
• Distribute multiple copies to friends and family
• Create photo books for special occasions
• Compile picture biographies of loved ones
• Upload all pictures to online photo sharing websites
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