We can high-quality digitize photographic film in rolls and lengths, scan negatives, positives and framed slides. Digitization of photographic films is carried out on professional Nikon Super CoolScan 5000 ED film scanners with a resolution of up to 4000 dpi, hardware removal of scratches and dust Digital ICE (only when scanning color film) at the price of a simple photo lab. The average order fulfillment time is from 2-3 days to a week. The output is JPEG, TIFF or NEF (Nikon RAW). Film in rolls is considered cheaper than film cut into pieces.

We also perform digitization with a resolution of up to 6400 dpi:

• medium format photographic films 6x4 - 6x9 cm, belonging to type 120;
• wide photographic films 9x12 cm.

How much does it cost to digitize photographic films?

• How to choose the right film scanning resolution;
• How to understand additional scanning options;
• How to color a b/w photograph, do retouching or restoration.

How is the price of digitizing photographic films, negatives and slides calculated?

Option 1. Price per roll. It is more profitable to scan entire rolls than frames one at a time with manual selection. If, for example, you brought more than 30 rolls, given that one roll contains from 36 to 40 frames, converting them to digital will cost very little - 5 rubles / frame. This option is used when scanning negatives - the positive film is usually already cut into separate slides, and digitizing the slides is always considered according to option 2.

Films with traces of improper storage: heavily curled, several pieces in one package, damaged or cut when it is impossible to scan the whole thing (the scanner does not accept it) are cut into smaller pieces and are also counted at the prices of option 2.

Option 2. Price per frame. Selective digitization of photographic films: this is either scanning negatives and positives in segments of 2-6 frames, or converting single framed slides into digital format in batch mode. Don't take them out of their frames—digitizing stripped slides costs twice as much because it requires more manual work.

• Films with damaged perforations, single slides without frames, stereo slides and APS films (IX240) are considered with a 100% surcharge;
• Empty spaces are tracked and not scanned;
• You can select frames by numbers;
• Digitization of negatives and positives costs the same.

The price includes a single-pass scan with a depth of 24 bits. The rest are additional options for demanding customers, further improving the quality of the scan. For example, we recommend first of all increasing the number of passes (optimally 2-4) - they significantly increase the purity of the image, reducing the noise of the scanner matrix.

High-quality digitization of photographic films

We use only professional slide scanners Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 ED, they undergo regular maintenance, so digitizing your photographic films with us is truly a good choice. The result will be better than on any tablet or photo lab and even better than on the cheaper Nikon Super CoolScan 4000 ED model, which is more common in the arsenal of studios and which the five-thousander outperforms in several respects:

• Dynamic range: 4.8D vs 4.2D. You will see more details;
• ADC bit size: 16 bits versus 14. Get more shades of color;
• The speed is almost twice as high. You won't have to wait long for your order to be completed;
• More image enhancing features: Digital DEE, Scan Image Enhancer.

Batch digitization of slides on Nikon CoolScan

Trust us to digitize your slides and films

By scanning both negatives and slides, we try to improve the image as much as possible. This includes infrared dust removal, color correction, and framing if desired by the client. If necessary, we can apply a color filter to give your shots a special tint. In the future, using Photoshop, we can retouch the frames and make deeper image corrections.

The result of digitizing photographic films depends on the condition of the film, on your wishes and the skill of our employees, who pay close attention to your priceless archives and put their souls into their work, sometimes empathizing with the touching stories of entire families, which are often closely connected with the history of our country. Still images of the war years or the wedding of a beloved grandmother, the 1980 Olympics, rare footage of famous cosmonauts or artists on holiday - we will carefully digitize any materials.

How to order digitization of photographic film

1. You can come to our studio in person. This is the most reliable way. You will be able to see for yourself how everything happens and know for sure that valuable materials will not leave our premises. We work seven days a week.
2. You can call a courier to any district of Moscow.
3. You can use one of 2,000 collection points throughout Russia.

Ordinary scanners are not designed for scanning slides and negatives due to insufficient backlighting. However, there is a trick that will allow you to do this using a small amount of cardboard. By constructing a clever design, you can redirect the light flux and achieve the desired result.

If you have old negatives lying around in your archive that you would like to convert into digital format, you have the opportunity to scan them. But simple scanning will not work for these purposes. In order for everything to work out, you need a powerful light source, which should be located behind the negative or a multi-functional scanner.

Of course, you can buy a special scanner for films, but if you already have a regular flatbed scanning device, you can get by with it. You can use a regular cardboard reflector to scan film or slide. It will capture the light emitted by the scanner and reflect it off the back of the slide. Such a reflector will make it possible to scan films and slides like regular documents.

To make a reflector we will need the following materials:
Sheet of thick A4 cardboard with silver side
Pencil
Scissors
Scotch
Ruler

Instructions

Having achieved a satisfactory result, you need to crop the image along the contour of the slide, since the scanner scans the entire glass, and we only need a small frame. Cropping can be done in any graphics editor. To obtain the clearest image possible, scan at high resolution. It is recommended to use 1200 DPI.

If dust gets on the negative during scanning, it can be removed with a soft lens brush or cosmetic brush. To remove stains or scratches, you can use the healing brush tool. To do this, you can use free programs such as GIMP or Paint.net. They are available for free download and are easy to find on the Internet.

It is possible, but the quality of scanning from a photograph will be worse than the result of scanning a negative or slide using a professional scanner.
It makes sense to scan photos if the originals (negatives or slides) are lost.

To scan films and slides, we use professional slide scanners NIKON SuperCoolScan 5000, designed for scanning transparent materials. To process the image scanned from the negative, powerful specialized workstations based on Intel i7 processors are used.

Negative and positive photographic films 35 mm (b/w and color), slides, photographs of any format. Photographic films can be cut into 4-6 frames and in rolls.
Negatives are automatically converted into positive images.
It is better not to remove slides from the frames.

Removing dust and scratches (unfortunately, this option is not applicable for b/w frames with a silver coating), ROC - color restoration, GEM - smoothing out increased grain, increasing sharpness. We can also save scanned photographs in a digital photo album as a slide show, further process images in Photoshop and much more.

We generally recommend saving in the two most common formats: JPEG (90%, 100%) and TIFF (8 Bit, 16 Bit). The ideal quality, of course, is the TIFF format, but photos in this format are 7-15 times larger in terms of storage space than in the JPEG format. We can scan slides with resolutions from 600dpi to 4000dpi. The most common resolution for scanning amateur negatives or slides, film frames is 2400dpi, since at this resolution it is possible to carry out excellent quality digital printing of photographs measuring 15x20 cm.

The process of the evolution of photography has been going on for almost 200 years, and during this time film photography has been reborn into digital photography, but after it film photo archives remain. To store them you need space and special conditions, but if the film is digitized, all this will not be necessary. Plus, digital photos are safer to store.

In addition to film photographic archives, there is a lot of film photographic equipment left, which are still being used to shoot. Film photography allows you to get very high quality images. This means that she will live together with “digital” for a long time. If photographic film is digitized, then using a computer you can take even better photographs.

Digitize photographic film- this means that each frame needs to be divided into separate pixel elements and information about their color and coordinates must be stored in a program file. For these purposes, you can use two main devices: a scanner or digital camera. How to digitize photographic film with their help will be discussed further.

Which scanner to digitize photographic film

A scanner is the most convenient device for digitizing your photographic films or slides of different formats. With its help, you can very quickly convert your film photo archive into digital view, while maintaining very good quality images. The level of quality will depend on the design of the scanner (Fig. 1).

Fig.1 You can digitize photographic film using different types of scanners.

There are different types of scanners for digitizing film, slides and other transparent photographic materials. Although they are all adapted to work with film, their capabilities are different, which means the price is different. In order to digitize photographic film at home, two types of scanners are suitable - a scanner with a slide module and a film scanner.