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Negative Scanning Service: Just A $29 Deposit To Start
Your film negatives are precious memories, and it’s time to update them to new digital media.
Send your negatives to Memory Fortress now, and we will transfer them to DVD, USB flash drive, and Dropbox (cloud delivery).
For as little as $29, you can start your order today!
Learn more about our negative services and our simple process below…
Best Negative Scanning Service
Let Us Convert Your Negatives To Digital!
- State of the art negative processing by skilled technicians!
- Pricing for 35mm: 75 cents per image at 4,000 dpi
- Individual color correction is only 50 cents more, restoration also offered.
- Medium format negatives are $1.79.
- Turnaround time is 7-10 days
- Deliverable Files are JPEG (ask about TIFF options).
- All negatives are returned in the same condition.
- Memory Fortress covers return shipping.
- Hundreds of satisfied customers have trusted us with their most precious memories!
126 film negatives
Prices and Devices
Pricing for Processing
- 35mm – 75 cents each
Additional notes:
- Medium format negatives – $1.79 each
- Large format negatives – $4.49 each
- Glass plate negatives – $9.49 each
- Hand color correction on all formats – 25 cents each
Delivery Options
- DVDs – one DVD should be enough space to hold all of your digital negatives.
- USB flash drives – 90% of our customers choose this option. No limits on space.
- External hard drives – You probably wouldn’t need these unless you were combining negatives with a large video order.
- Dropbox – Also a great option for customers with larger quantities.
- Digital format – All digital files you receive will be .jpg format. TIFF format is also an option (please ask).
Delivery Pricing
- DVDs – no additional charge.
- Additional DVDs – $9 per DVD for the 2nd and all subsequent copies.
- USB flash drives – same as on the Pricing Grid (8GB=$12, 16GB=$20, 32GB=$33, 64GB=$45, 128GB=$65, 256GB=$85), all fully loaded.
- External hard drives – $145 for a fully loaded 1TB Seagate external drive. Custom pricing on drives greater than 1TB.
- Dropbox – $10 flat charge. Dropbox link is active for 14 days after you pay.
Sharon P. – “Memory Fortress made this simple and easy to work with, from the shipping to the finished product, the turnaround time, and the affordable prices. I will be working with Memory Fortress again soon for all my scanning needs…pictures, negatives, etc. Thanks!!”
Additional Negative Scanning Details
Remember the negatives you used to get with all of your photographs?
They were skinny and didn’t take up much room, and when you gave some of your printed pictures away to loved ones, you felt okay about it because you “still had the negatives.”
But you never looked at them again, did you? They went back in the drawer or the shoebox, or maybe they are still in your big fireproof safe.
So, while protecting them, you aren’t really enjoying them, and crucial bits of family history are not readily accessible and certainly are not being shared.
At this point, you are probably hard-pressed to hold your negatives up to the light to see what’s on them. And yet, you have thousands of negatives, some going back 50 years or more.
You have a multi-dimensional problem – your memories are present but not viewable by anybody, and they and the memories on them are fading after all these years.
Those negatives are valuable memories with no future value in their current state.
They must be brought into the modern era with all of your other forms of media.
While negatives tend to be the highest quality analog items in everyone’s collection, they are also the least viewed and most forgotten.
Our Background In Photo Scanning
We know everyone out there has old negatives. They may be in shoeboxes, picture frames, or big, heavy albums.
Many yellow and fading photos have been passed down from parents and grandparents.
They are in attics. They are in closets. They are under every bed in your house.
The negatives of the photographs comprise the vast majority of the memories of days gone.
You have thousands and thousands of them. Chances are, you cannot identify everyone in those negatives because much time has passed, and the people you thought you would remember forever.
We know this was the same reason we started Memory Fortress.
At the time, there wasn’t an excellent way to get your negatives digitized, organized, and tagged.
As it turns out, people took action only when a big event happened, usually a family wedding or funeral.
But we wanted to make it so easy and so inexpensive to preserve memories that the photo scanning operation was the first business we launched.
We Take Negative Scanning Seriously
Most people who send in negatives are more particular about high-quality images.
Of course, old negatives may have degraded some over time while sitting on the closet’s top shelf.
Memory Fortress uses two forms of color correction to bring old memories and negatives back to life.
Many negatives skew red or blue, depending on the original manufacturer of the film.
While we can’t take away the tinting entirely, we can remove much of it, leaving you with a much crisper, more precise, sharper image than you thought you had.
Our technicians are skilled at editing and working on each image to produce the best possible quality!
This begs an obvious question: If you have both the negatives and the printed photos, which should you send to Memory Fortress?
Well, good question! We are glad you asked. Generally, digitizing the negatives will lead to a higher-quality image.
Since the printed photo is a copy of the negative, you are essentially making a copy of an existing document by scanning photographs. However, it is less expensive to process the pictures.
So, if the cost is critical, send in the photos. If the image quality is essential, send the negatives with the purest available image.
What about deliverables and timing?
Processing negatives takes slightly longer than processing printed photos, but we turn most negatives around within 5-10 business days.
We will call and inform you that substantial quantities will take a little extra time.
Each negative is scanned one at a time and undergoes a process that maximizes the image’s clarity and sharpness. We do not rush this process.
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