Scanning old film negatives – Scancafe

Posted by Carel on Nov 28, 2007 in Negatives, Scan Old Film Negatives | 0 comments

Scanning old film negatives – Scancafe


I’m sure you have lots of old film negatives and slides in shoe boxes. You may or may not have developed these into photos. I recently used ScanCafe to digitize about 380 negatives into digital jpeg files. These are the steps:

  1. Find your film negatives :-)
  2. Print a UPS shipping label from the ScanCafe web-site.
  3. Ship your negatives in a sturdy padded envelope. [I also suggest you make a note of each set of negatives.]
  4. You can easily track your package on the UPS and ScanCafe web-sites.
  5. ScanCafe wil notify you when they receive it.
  6. Wait about 40 days (July 2 to August 14 for me) for the negatives to be scanned.
  7. Go online and pick the ones you want and only pay for them. [ScanCafe ended up sending me all my pictures] The site is easy to navigate and to view and to select the pictures you want.
  8. ScanCafe will cut a CD or DVD with you pictures and you should receive it 3-5 business days. You also get your original negatives back.

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