Our Slide scanning process: 1. Each slide is inspected for damage and repaired where necessary **   2. Surface dust is removed using industrial standard air compressor 3. Slides are loaded into our scanners to be scanned 4. Using top of the range software and scanners we will remove any additional dust* 5. Once scanned images are then manually checked and adjusted for contrast and colour. 6. During our manual inspection a basic level of image editing is used to remove any foreign objects such as dust or hair*   Simple Scanning  Why waste time counting all your slides or negatives ? Simply box your films up, fill in our printable post form then pop them in the post and we can send you an invoice upon completion. Please send us a quick email once you post your package so we know its on its way and can book you on to our system

Unsure on the results you will receive? JPG TIFF  1-199 39p 200+ 34p 1000+ 29p  Per image   Quantity:   1-199 49p 200+ 44p 1000+ 38p  Per image   Quantity:  Average Scanning area (Pixels) (Varies depends on Slide manufacture and size) 4700x3100 4700x3100 Equivalent to a Megapixel image of (modern digital camera) 14.0 14.0 Print DPI 4000 4000 Bit Depth 24 24 Saved as Jpeg Tiff Average File Size 7-30Mb 60-65Mb Dust Removal Colour Correction Full Digital ROC Full Digital ROC Grain Noise Reduction Full Digital GEM Full Digital GEM Contrast and Exposure Full Digital SHO Technology Full Digital SHO Technology Rotation YES YES Inspection and touch up Full inspection Full inspection and touch up where required General Information   This is the service that 95% of our customers use. Great for the home and family photos All images scanned in Jpg format Home service uses multi-pass scanning technology for up to 16 scan passes for faithful reproduction and smoother gradation where required All images scanned in TIFF format TIFF Technology is a loss less compression used for printing larger images for example canvas printing Professional service uses multi-pass scanning technology for up to 16 scan passes for faithful reproduction and smoother gradation where required Example Click images for full size images it may be slow to download using a slow connection       Tiff examples available upon request New for 2012 HD 5000 DPI scanning now available - click here for our HD slides scanning prices

Important notes:

• We can scan Negatives, Positives and Monochrome 35mm slides.

• 127, 126 and 110 sized slides may be slightly cropped in the corners due to the way our scanners operate.

• 35mm slides will always scan better than instamatic film due to the quality of the original film.

• Numbering - Images and folders are automatically numbered using our scanner system. If you wish for images or folders to be renamed we advise that you carry out this yourself once you receive your images back in digital format as you know the images better than anybody so can correctly name them, we can do this for you but due to the additional time it takes there will be a surcharge per image and it must be pre-arranged prior to any orders. Simplest thing to do is to leave the numbering to our system.

• Infrared (IR) images - can also be scanned and you will receive the image in IR without any attempt to colour correct.

• Un-mounted or Damaged mounts - We offer an additional service for slides which are no longer in their mounts. This charge covers the re-mounting your slides in a temporary slides mount and removing them after scanning - If your slides are mounted in very poor condition mounts then this charge may also apply if we can not scan your slide in its existing mount.

• Glass Mounted Slides - If you want the best quality scanned image it is best that we scan slides without their glass, our scanners do scan very well with glass mounted slides but usually best with it removed. If you wish to have your slides scanned without glass then you need to remove the glass before sending them to us, we can not remove and remount the glass as part of our service. Any glass slides that are cracked will also need the glass removed prior to sending as this will be picked up on scanning. Glass mounted slides which are not standard size, i.e. home made glass mounts and are too large for our scanners have to be scanned using our medium format scanner at medium format prices, as long as your slides is a manufactured mount then this should not pose a problem.

• Image order -Due to the way we scan slides and negatives we can not  guarantee any preset orders of images, we will do all we can to stick to an obvious order however there are many influences that can change this, for example different types/sizes of slides may need to go though different scanners, some images may need to be scanned again due to dirt levels or scanning incorrectly. Also some slides may need to have their mounts repaired or replaced due to being too weak to go through our scanners. We advise that the best way to put images in a particular order is to rename/re-order the images in digital format when you receive them back from us, It's a lot easier when you can see the full image on your PC screen.

• Returned order of originals - as noted above we use bulk process scanners so can not guarantee that we can keep your films is any particular order for their return, we will of course do the best we can to keep to any particular requests however with the way our scanners operate it may not always be possible. For shipping purposes slides that are sent in sleeve albums will not be put back in albums but simply returned with elastic bands (empty albums also returned) , unless specifically requested at additional cost.

* Please not this is not a photo restoration service, we can offer photo restoration which can remove moult, scratches, rips and embedded dust which is charged by the hour. If you slides are in a bad condition then not all marks will be removed using our scanning service.