Expert in 35mm Slide Scanning Service
No matter how you have them organized, we’ll maintain that digitally for you as we scan. If you haven’t been storing your slides in a climate-controlled part of your home, safe from too much natural sunlight or temperature fluctuations and you’ve been moving them from closet, to attic, to basement and back to the closet as you need the space – we are your best option for 35mm slide scanning. Our technicians clean and optimize every slide before and after digitizing, our slide scans provide crisp digital reproductions with competitive pricing.
ERIC, JENNIFER, & WINSTON
“Our ultimate goal is to make your best memories EverPresent in your life. Digitizing degrading photos and home movies is a necessary first step. Once your memories are safely digital, a world of searchable family archives and storytelling keepsakes are suddenly possible! We look forward to working with you.”
Why Families & Institutions Nationwide Choose EverPresent
- Value: The size of our company allows us to provide more for less. Our digitizing is higher quality and better organized – and we offer an array of advanced services you won’t find anywhere else. Our pricing is transparent and always includes 60 days of free digital downloads and sharing.
- Convenience: Home and office pickups, over 50 local stores and easy shipping options. And unlike other companies, we embrace tedious work like transcribing written labels into your USB filenames and DVD labels so you don’t have to.
- Trust: Over 50 million memories preserved, 30+ years experience, 80+ expert technicians. Alarmed, sprinklered, camera-monitored, US-based, high-tech lab. Advanced barcode tracking and email technology to keep you updated.
- Respect: No upfront payments and no rushed decisions. Deciding whether to proceed with broken tapes, or upgrade to ProResHQ archival files or restorative tape incubation can have a real budget impact. That’s why we include a free consultation after we’ve reviewed your materials to assure you pick the right options at the right price to suit your needs.
Slide & Negative Pricing
- Our team will walk you through the technical options in advance before you commit to anything. It’s free to get your materials to us for an estimate and there’s no upfront payment.
- We only charge for the work we do, not for a preset numbers of items. We don’t promote flashy discounts or expiring coupons. We offer volume discounts because it’s fair, and we apply them automatically.
- We offer the widest range of options and capabilities to assure your project gets what it needs, but out of respect for your budget, never more than it needs. In our business, one size rarely fits all (or fits in a box).
Ultimately, what we care about is helping families do this important project ONCE – and do it right the first time.
Standard Slides & NegativesFirst 200 scans (standard 35mm): $0.84$0.64 for scans 200+This 24% bulk discount will be applied automatically! |
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There's no need to unpack your carousels, slide boxes or sleeves of negatives. Bring us your images as you have them so we can scan them in order and keep your collection organized as intended.
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We can digitize pretty much everything. Please reach out for custom pricing on these items.
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When you speak with your consultant we'll help you determine if your collection, and how you intend to use it, merits any of these upgrades.
3 easy ways to work with us:
HOME PICKUPS
Too many boxes to move on your own? Complimentary home and office pickups are offered throughout the Northeast for projects over $300.
LOCAL DROP OFFS - 60+ LOCATIONS
All readily available for convenient drop-off. See which store is closest to you. Our drivers personally transport projects to our local lab for digitizing.
FREE SHIPPING
We accept mail-in orders from across the U.S. We’ll email a pre-paid UPS label or apply a shipping credit if you ship on your own.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
How many slides do I have?
35mm slide carousels are easy, they are numbered! What about your 35mm slides in boxes or loose stacks? We’ll help you count!
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35mm Slides to Prints
Our ultimate guide to scanning 35mm slides to make digital images – and how to make prints from them!
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Amazing 35mm slide scanning job
All of our 35mm slide to DVD projects are a treasure trove! Seriously, they are – and so is yours! Check out one of our favorites.
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Not that we are aware of. 35mm slides represent ~95% of our scanning requests, but we can handle all of the other formats as well. Even if slides are in bad shape, the worst case scenario is that we remove the film positives from the slide mounts and scan the raw film. It costs more, but can be done if absolutely necessary. This happens in well less than 1% of the slides we encounter.
There’s good news and bad news when it comes to slide selection. The good news is that slides were the dominion of good photographers and were relatively costly to make, so people tended to avoid unnecessary slide creation, and there wasn’t the duplicate phenomenon we encountered later with print photos. That said, there are still plenty of slides people may prefer not to scan, and it ultimately is a personal question whether the time spent to declutter slides is worth it. If you do take on this challenge, some equipment will help with selection before scanning. For 35mm slides, you might find a PanaVue device online for under $100 that allows you to insert slides into a magnifying device. Alternatively, old 35mm slide projectors can be found that will let you put enlargements on your wall. For non-standard slides, the options are less convenient, but a light table can help you view batches of slides conveniently. They’ll be small, but at least you won’t be holding them up to your overhead light in the kitchen.
Of course! We do not put any sort of copyright on our slide scans. You own them and they are yours to share as you please, be it on websites, Instagram, in articles you are publishing, in email attachments or anywhere else. Our higher resolution slide scanning at 2000-4000 DPI is generally overkill for online viewing and will allow for excellent display, especially on phones and mobile applications. We deliver our slide scans as .jpg files, which work fine on the web and are generally easiest for uploading and downloading. But some web developers prefer the .png technology for website content. If that’s your preference, we offer this feature – so just let us know when you submit your order online or visit our stores and we can export a set of .png type files for you. Lastly, you should know that the data appended to your files will flow through to most online photo-sharing applications. For example, if you choose to have us append metadata for face tags or dates or whatnot, you should be able to sort lists online quickly according to this data. Some sites will even allow geo-tags to populate your images on maps!
As 35mm slides were by far the most common slide produced, the converters and scanners developed for digitizing slides are more advanced and bring inherent efficiency. And, orders tend to be larger, which creates its own efficiency in our process. We pass this along to our clients in the form of lower pricing for 35mm slide conversion. All of the other slide formats must be transferred on slower equipment.
Our default is .JPG files at 2,000 DPI. We also offer 4,000 DPI and beyond. Upgrades to .TIFF files are available and are preferred by some professional photographers, editors and institutional archivists. While this service is more profitable for EverPresent, we don’t push it for most clients, as it’s expensive and can bog down computers and software platforms not geared for archives of this size or sophistication. Keep in mind that we can also transfer slides to DVD or CD.
Yes. As discussed earlier our default process addresses dust and surface blemishes. But after we do the initial scan, we do additional optimizations. Some are about image integrity, such as assuring clean crops and correct orientation. But we also do light image optimizations, with exposure fixing being the most applicable for slides. We also keep a lookout for common color issues, with shift in the magenta over time being the most common resolution issue with slides. For discerning clients, we offer advanced repair, retouching and restoration services. If you’d like to learn more, please ask your consultant about this option.
100% yes. Almost all slide containers label each of the slots in numerical sequence. We start at 1 and go in order to the last slide. Even if you don’t think your carousels are in any kind of order, you never know who may have spent an hour or two sorting them once-upon-a-time.
A lot! A data DVD can hold thousands of scanned images, but if you have more slides than fit on a DVD, we’ll upgrade you to whatever size USB you might need at zero cost.
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You’re in good hands! Our team has decades of experience turning millions of photos and videos into beautiful digital memories that you can share with others.