Why Scan My Negatives?

Your photos are important to you and your family and there's no better way to protect, share and enjoy your photos than to convert them to digital.

Digital is forever. An investment in digitizing your photos is money well spent not only for the peace of mind it can provide but for the many new uses you'll discover for those old photos and the new smiles you'll create by sharing and enjoying your memories in a more contemporary way.

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Why Choose DigMyPics to Scan My Negatives?

DigMyPics is the leader in a broad base of personal digital archiving technologies. No other company offers the breadth of expertise, experience, offerings and technology to help you preserve your personal archives.

• Professional, university trained artists, photographers, and videographers working on your behalf.



• Online, secure storage available to keep your archives safe from disaster and available wherever you have access to the internet.



• Industry first and only Real Time Photo Scanning View. See your images the second they’re scanned by our technicians.



• Direct communications with the team of professionals that are actually working on your archival project.



• Free, Easy, online viewing of your new archives once their complete.

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What Are My Negative Scanning Options?

Digitizing your memories is not a one size fits all kind of process. We offer a lot of different options so you can customize the process to your needs. Visit our Getting Ready page for tips on how to start getting your negatives ready to archive. You are encouraged to give us a call or send us an email so we can discuss those options with you and ensure you are getting exactly what you are expecting.

• Have your scanned images stored on CDs, DVDs data discs, or both.
  
  
• Choose a resolution of 2000, 3000, or 4000 dpi for your negatives. All of these resolutions result in high quality scans, but beware! More isn't always better! Select a DPI that fits your project goals. Learn more about resolution and dpi on our Resolving Resolution page, or contact us! We'll be happy to help!
  
  
• We scan and enhance all your negatives in lossless TIFF format, so you never have to pay extra to just get your images in TIFF format. You can choose to get your images back as JPEG, TIFF, or both!
  
  
• Add a Thumbnail Album to your order to make finding a specific image really easy!
  
  
• We Organize. Choose to have your negatives put back in archival storage sleeves, and then neatly organized in a 3-Ring Box Album. If you order our archival storage for your negatives when you place your scanning order, we'll place your negatives in your new storage products as we scan for no additional charge! Then, when you get them back, they are neat, organized and ready to store.
  
  
• Make a Slideshow Movie DVD from your negatives! Watch the movie on your TV or on your computer! You can even add titles, chapter points, and your own music to make your Slideshow Movie special!



• After your negatives are scanned, you can choose to keep them safely stored online by signing up for an Expo subscription.
  
  

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Who Will Be Working With My Negatives?

DigMyPics! hires only imaging and graphics professionals with college degrees in the arts. We pay competitive wages and offer benefits like health, dental, and employer matching 401(k). These offerings allow us to hire the best people and give opportunities to those who want to develop a career in photography while giving you the benefits of knowing that your irreplaceable artifacts are in good hands.

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How Long Will It Take?  

Below is our current turn around time. It is updated as frequently as required and also posted on the left sidebar of every page. We offer a rush service if you need them in a hurry; please contact us if you need us to expedite your order.

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How Much Will It Cost To Scan My Negatives?

 

35mm Negatives and APS Cartridges
	Quantity 2000 DPI 1-4,999 $0.44 5,000+ $0.39
	20 cents/Photo Additional for 3000 dpi 40 cents/Photo Additional for 4000 dpi $1.29 per Photo at 2000 dpi If you only want select photos on a strip and/or for single frames.
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Please Note: Our pricing for 35mm negatives and APS is per frame and based on scanning the entire strip or cartridge. Additional handling fees apply for other film types, selectivly scanning specific frames and/or for single frames Not sure what kind of negatives you have? See our Film Format Comparison Guide for more information on non-standard film types.

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How Do I Get Started?

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Fill out the order form on our website.

Print
Print the mailing label. Want to use FedEx? It's built right in to our website. Our partnership with FedEx allows us to pass down a 10% FedEx discount on labels you print through our us.  You can even schedule FedEx to come to your door and retreive your boxes of photos and bring them to us.

Organize and Label
If desired, group your photos and clearly label the groups with a name and the order that you would wish them to appear. Visit our Getting Ready page for some guidelines.

Don't have time to organize?  No problem. Just send us your box or boxes of photos and well take care of it for you.

Ship
Carefully pack up your photos and ship them to us. Visit our Shipping Tips page for suggestions.  We'll let you know as soon as we receive them.

 

 

Once we finish processing your photos you're able to view all of your photos on our website. We then ship everything back to you.

It's really very easy.

You can watch our back stage tour video  to see exactly how our process works.

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