Negatives are what’s left of the chemical development process. Developing these strips inverts the image, resulting in a photo that displays the colors as you took them. Light causes chemicals on the film strip to react and capture the image. When you shoot something with an analog camera, you expose the film inside to light. These rolls of film are called negatives because they’re the exact inverse of your final picture – the black parts are white, the white parts are black. Negatives are images printed on film strips when you shoot using an analog camera. Please call for a quote on TIFF formats.Get Your Photos Restored Now What Are Film Negatives? Some customers prefer TIFF or other formats for specific reasons. Any smooth variation in color, such as occurs in highlighted or shaded areas, will be represented more faithfully and in less space by JPEG. JPEG is superior to TIFF for storing full-color or gray-scale images of “realistic” scenes, that means scanned photographs, continuous-tone artwork, and similar material.
Our scanning service recommendation is the JPEG format. Q? What digital imaging format option do you recommend?Ī. If your slides have a metal protection ring please remove before sending. These type of slides require special equipment and processing. We can process 127mm 0r 128mm slides at a quoted price. Our service specializes in 35mm plastic or cardboard mounted slides. Our price does not include restoration for damaged film or frames needing remounting.
However, the most realistic expectation for the 35mm slide scanning process is to preserve the current condition of the photo slide image. Our process can improve in some cases the quality of under-exposed 35mm slides. How will slide scanning from those slides lookĪ. Q? Some of my photo slides are dark, under-exposed or in poor condition.
The most compelling reason is to archive via slide scanning and preserve your important 35mm slides. Q? Why should I convert my 35mm slides to digital ?Ī.
This resolution gives you excellent viewing quality on a television or PC monitor and color prints can be reproduced with great results. The majority of our customers select 3600 dpi for 35mm slides. Q? What resolution do you recommend for scanning 35mm photo slides to digital slides?Ī. Check out some of the blogs on this subject. In addition, accessing the images is typically very slow and not user friendly. It is our opinion that the risk of theft or access by an unauthorized user is to great. Your pictures will always be are posted to a third party vendor on the internet. We have evaluated online access to images and have great concerns. The safety of your slides and identity is our first concern. The process is simple for our customers.Ī. We really do like to keeping pricing simple, only 32 cents per slide and nothing more. Beware, pricing by other services are often marketing gimmicks designed to confuse customers with sliding scales and add on expenses. Our everyday price of 32 cents per slide for any size order is the lowest price per slide in the industry. Q? What about the “Only pay for the scans you keep” pricing policy?Ī. After you have reviewed your slides and are completely satisfied you can choose either the credit or cash options available. Your completed order will be returned to you with an invoice. No, please package your slides and send them to us.