Memories and Old Images…
You may have old photographs you want digitised. They may be of yourself,
your children, or (grand)parents, and so on.
They may be old black and white prints, even older silver or sepia prints
from the late 1800's or various colour prints. If colour, they may still be
very colourful, or may have faded.
These old pictures can be restored. They can then be printed onto photo
quality paper for display. They can then be put onto CD for preservation,
viewing, sending or sharing with or giving to the rest of the family, or a
museum, society, genealogists, and so on.
You may still have original negatives, or slides. They can also be scanned,
the colours restored, the spots removed and so on, to like new condition,
and the images printed or put onto CD.
If you want to, you can do it yourself, if you buy the correct equipment.
However you likely value your time, and time is money. Doing this work is
time consuming, and therefore a costly exercise.
One slide or photograph or negative can take anywhere from 5 minutes to
hours, depending on how 'bad' the original is compared to what it 'should'
look like.
I know because I do it. 10 to 15 an hour is doing well, when all is said and
done.
Look at
http://members.rogers.com/rheuman/index3.html If you want to see
what can be done. You can contact me at
and ask questions,
as well.
If you look at my web site address because you want this type of work done,
you will what can be done via my work.
If the source of the image requires repairs be made to the result, time
required goes up [look at the web site for an idea of how it works].
I save images as either TIFF files (This is what I recommend, but they are
much larger because they do not lose any information from the scanned
result) or JPEG files with maximum information retention.
There are others who do this kind of work.
Investigate if you want to have it done, but remember, that IF you have old
slides, negatives, or photographs that you want to preserve, it CAN be done,
I can do it properly.
Also remember that you will get what you pay for. That old adage holds true.
For the record, I can work with any of the following:
Any black and white or colour photograph
35 mm slides and negatives
APS slides
APS negative cartridges
Half frame 35mm 18 x 24mm images or slides
Minox sub-miniature 8 x 11mm images
16mm film 10 x 14mm images
Panoramic images (each counts as TWO) 24 x 58mm, 24 x 59mm or 24 x 66mm
Minolta or Gami 12 x 17mm or 10 x 14mm images
Mikroma 11.5 x 14.7mm or 10 x 14.7mm images
Tessina 14 x 21mm images
Expo Police 18 x 28mm images
Expo Watch 16 x 22mm images
Kodak 110 13 x 17mm images
Kodak Disk 8 X 10mm images (must be removed from disk to be scanned)
Robot SC 16 x 16mm images
Any 14 x 14mm image
Any 10 x 10mm image
The smaller the size of the original image, the smaller the resulting scan
will be.
The smaller the scan, the smaller any print made can be if reasonable
quality is wanted in the print.
For example, the Minox 8 x 11mm image is only 10.2% of the size of a
standard 24 x 36mm 35mm image, so should not be print out larger than 2.36 x
2.95 inches for what is equal to a 7.08 x 10.63 inch 35mm image.
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