Please note: Sorry our Value service is no longer available

Our Value scanning is a cost effective way to get print and video ready images.

It can breath new life into that old slide collection that's fading away and collecting dust somewhere.

Value scanning includes cleaning of your slides or negatives with compressed air, Digital ICE dust & scratch removal, as well as basic colour correction and many other optimizations.

Your new digital images can be saved to JPEG format and then stored on Quality CD-R or high quality Data DVDs.

Ideal for uploading to websites such as Facebook and Myspace:

Value scanning is a high resolution image without spending a fortune in the process.

Value scanning is a cost effective way to preserve the family slides or negatives.

What's Included with our Value Service

1. Use of compressed air to clean your slides or negatives
2. High resolution scanning
3 . Digital ICE Dust & Scratch Removal
4. Images saved to JPEG File format
5.Output to CD or Data DVD

6. FREE - BASIC DIGITAL GEM - Reduces Film Grain Noise - See below

APS films are always more grainy than standard 35mm film, slides and digital photos.

DIGITAL GEM is a technology developed by Applied Science Fiction that reduces film grain from a scanned image. GEM stands for Grain Equalization & Management. It is able to analyze film's grain pattern and then reduce or remove film graininess without harming the colours, sharpness, and detail content of the image. This technology is based on a complex set of algorithms and works after the scanning process.

Film grain in photographic film is the result of silver halide crystals in the film emulsion surface. All photographic film has grain, and different film speeds have different grain sizes. The faster the film speed the larger and more noticeable the grain. When film is scanned the film grain does appear in the resulting digital image. By using GEM processing this unattractive grain pattern, or graininess, can be reduced and in some cases it is eliminated altogether. This processing option will make an image taken on a film camera look more like one taken on a digital camera.

Please Note: Our Value Service Basic Digital Gem is only a fast GEM scan and removes only some of the film graininess, this is fine for 35mm negatives, slides and most high quality APS films. Some lower quality higher speed APS films however will still contain a lot of graininess especially on large landscape photos and photos shot in low light conditions.

The lower the number the less sensitive the film is to light.

• Slow Speed Films ISO 25 to 100 give very sharp fine grain results. Ideal for enlargements.
• Medium Speed Film ISO 200 to 400 are good all round films suitable for most subjects.
• Fast Speed Film ISO 800 to 3200 are used for hand held photography in low light or action pictures. Tend to be grainy with less saturated colours and not suitable for big enlargements.