DIGITIZE NEGATIVES WITH OUR RENOWNED SCANNING TEAM
WE SCAN NEGATIVES TO DIGITAL
Our technicians digitize millions of negatives every year and we take special pride in our negative scanning service. Our scans are exquisite, whether you select our basic or advanced level of service. We hope you enjoy the convenience of our 50+ locations, home pickups, or our mail-in services. Our family-run business appreciates your thinking of us, and we will treat your project like our own.
“By making the hard work of digitizing and sharing easy for our clients, we will preserve our world’s history before old formats fade and family stories are lost to time. Our ultimate goal is to make your best memories EverPresent in your life.”
IT’S FREE & EASY TO USE OUR NEGATIVE SCANNING SERVICE
HOME PICKUPS
Too many boxes to move on your own? Complimentary home and office pickups are offered throughout the East Coast for projects over $300.
LOCAL DROP OFFS - 75+ 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.
There’s no prep required to get the ball rolling
A lot of folks worry they have to organize, count, bag, and tag their negatives before reaching out. You don’t! We can take care of all of that. Plus, we’d love to hear from you even if all you’re looking for at the moment is some advice about converting negatives to digital photos.
- You don’t have to count your items in advance.
- You don’t have to know exactly what formats you have.
- Your organization stays intact, we’ll maintain whatever you give us.
- We handle projects of all sizes; from handfuls of negatives to tens of thousands of films!
Wherever you are in the process
we’re here to help
with a free, no-obligation estimate.
WHY CHOOSE EVERPRESENT’S FILM NEGATIVE SCANNING SERVICE
- More for less: The size of our company allows us to provide you with a better value service. Our digital negatives are higher quality and better organized — and we offer an array of advanced digitizing services you won’t find anywhere else. Enjoy a free consultation with our experts to guide you to the best scanning options.
- Ease of service: Thanks to our home and office pickups, more than 50 local stores, and easy shipping options, we’re the most convenient negative scanning service near you. And, unlike other companies, we also handle negatives and other keepsakes as is, and we embrace tedious work like transcribing written captions so you don’t have to.
- 30 years experience: You can trust us to digitize your negatives. Thanks to our highly skilled 80+ technicians, we’ve preserved more than 50 million memories at our alarmed, sprinklered, camera-monitored, US-based, high-tech labs. We also offer advanced barcode tracking and email technology to keep you updated every step of the way.
- Respect: No upfront payments and no rushed decisions. We never ask you to do work to make our job easier. Feel free to send the negatives you want digitizing in their original envelopes, albums, or boxes. We’ll count them for you, provide a no-obligation estimate, and keep everything in order.
DIGITIZING NEGATIVES IS WHAT WE DO BEST
We digitize all types of negatives, including 35mm negatives, 110 negatives, 126 negatives, APS canisters, glass plate negatives, medium format negatives and large format negatives all in house.
You don’t need to organize your negatives before sending them to us. We take your negatives in their original boxes, sleeves or envelopes however you have them and return them the same way.
Do you have undeveloped 35mm negatives still inside your camera or negative roll? We can’t develop them for you, but we have a great resource on Where to Still Develop Film on our blog!
COSTS TO SCAN NEGATIVES TO DIGITAL
EverPresent’s unique approach to 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 number 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.
SLIDES & NEGATIVES
First 200 scans (standard 35mm): $0.84
$0.64 for scans 200+
This 24% discount will be applied automatically!
- 2000 DPI scanning by hand on professional scanners
- Dust removal & Image optimization
- Clean cropping, straightening, orienting
- Scans kept in order and labeled sequentially
- Folders for clear photo groupings
- EverPresent mobile/web app with 60 days of private cloud storage
- 60-days unlimited sharing and downloading
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.
- 35mm slides
- 35mm negatives
- 110 slides & negatives
- 126 slides & negatives
- 127 slides & negatives
- Super127 slides & negatives
- Stereo slides
- Super35mm slides
- Medium format slides
- Med. & Large format negatives
- Glass plate negatives
- Slides in plastic and metal sleeves
- Disc negatives
- And more…
We can digitize pretty much everything. Please reach out for custom pricing on these items.
- .TIFF master files
- Image Enhancement
- Advanced Image Repair
- Caption transcription
- Custom tagging and organizing in metadata
- Scan backs
- Image cleaning and mold removal
- DPI upgrades
- Custom slideshows
- Custom photo books
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.
- .TIFF master files
- Image Enhancement
- Advanced Image Repair
- Caption transcription
- Custom tagging and organizing in metadata
- Scan backs
- Image cleaning and mold removal
- DPI upgrades
- Custom slideshows
- Custom photo books
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.
Get an estimate on your Negatives to Digital project!
Fill out our form or call to speak to a consultant
DIGITIZING NEGATIVES FAQS
The links below will take you to short videos about our most popular services:
- Digitize Photos
- Video Transfer Services
- Slides to Digital
- Album & Scrapbook Scanning
- Film to Digital
- Audio Conversion
You’re in good hands! Our team has decades of experience turning millions of negatives and videos into beautiful digital memories that you can share with others.
Absolutely! Whether you need to digitize 35mm, 110, 126, APS canisters, glass plate, medium format, or large format negatives, any professional negative scanning service can help convert your negatives to digital. There are also ways to DIY the project, but we recommend doing a lot of research and investing in the right equipment before you start. You don’t want to risk damaging or stretching your originals.
Technically, yes, but it takes a backwards DIY hack and — if we’re being totally honest — doesn’t lead to great results. You see, most flatbed scanners (which is what you’ll most likely have at home) aren’t typically backlit. As photo negatives only project when light is shone behind them, it makes it difficult to scan them. You’ll find various “hacks” online to redirect light so they can be scanned, but the result will be a poor resolution, low-quality scan. We wouldn’t feel right recommending it to you. When we digitize negatives in our labs, we select the most appropriate scanning technology for each individual negative to get high-quality scans while protecting the originals from any damage, fraying, or tearing.
It seems there’s an app for everything now! We haven’t tried them out ourselves, but we know Filmory and Film Scanner Pro are available for iOS, while FilmBox by Photomyne, FilmLab, and Kodak Mobile Film Scanner are available for both iOS and Android. Based on reviews, these are often low-resolution scans and can struggle with scanning negatives. Having said that, we appreciate you might want to give them a go and see the results for yourself.
Those are the tools you’ll need, too, if you’re undertaking a DIY project. Just remember to take a lot of time and care.
HOW OUR NEGATIVE SCANNING SERVICE WORKS:
THE TECHNICAL FINE PRINT
There are certain folks who like to read the fine print before they make an important decision. This section is for you. It’s not a light read, but will give you a look under the hood how we convert negatives to digital photos. Our philosophy has always been simple: only offer a service if we can do it better and/or cheaper than the alternatives. If you can’t look in the mirror and meet that standard with a straight face, then don’t offer it at all.
Quality Factor #1 – Preparing Negatives for Scanning
Negatives tend to come to us in sleeves of some sort that often have very small handwriting and some level of stickiness to them. The first step in our negative scanning service is to create a unique folder for each natural grouping of negatives, and transcribe your written labels into the folders so that we preserve your organization system. Then, we clean the negatives themselves with compressed air and/or microfiber cloths. Lastly, we evaluate the negatives to select the appropriate scanner technology.
Quality Factor #2 – Professional Scanners and Equipment
The various forms of negatives require many different scanning technologies. We evaluate every collection of negatives carefully to determine the right answer to get high-quality scans while protecting the originals from any damage, fraying or tearing.
- Flatbed Slide Scanners: Flatbed scanners are the go-to machine for glass plate negatives and, because we can put light pressure on top of the scanner glass, for situations where 35mm negatives have become extremely curled. In these situations we use a special glass that eliminates a distortion called Newton rings. Flatbed scanning is a slower process, but allows us the flexibility to deal with challenging negatives at a high level of quality.
- Overhead Scanners: We recently built an overhead scanning rig that is yielding higher quality scans for medium and large format negatives at an affordable price. Overhead scanners refer to a premium camera element that images the negatives from above. We built this rig in-house using Nikon imagine elements and it costs ~$20,000.
- Feed Scanners: Premium film feed scanners are the best options for 35mm negatives and APS canisters. A feed uses a custom tray which allows a single strip of negatives to be inserted and then scanned image-by-image. The best machines for purpose were the converters made by Nikon. Fortunately, we have a huge supply of these devices and know how to maintain them, relying on 3D printing and expert handling. These Nikon scanners do a wonderful job on color saturation, removing artifacts and producing a super sharp image at 4,000 DPI. These scanning stations cost ~$15,000 a piece.
Quality Factor #3 – Image Retouching
Generally speaking, if our clients have kept their 35mm negatives over their prints and have them in exquisite condition, they are true photo enthusiasts who want the best out of their negative scans. Fortunately, we have wonderful options for these clients. Our baseline services include 2,000 DPI scanning, dust removal, correct orientation and cropping, light optimization mainly focused on exposure and white balance, and organized folders with sequential labeling of the .jpg files. Discerning clients often ask us for the following upgrades:
- Enhanced scanning resolution to 4,000 DPI
- .TIFF files for enhanced professional editing capabilities
- Advanced organizing with metadata tags for dates, geography, topics or faces
- Image retouching focusing primarily on color correction. We have an affordable service at $0.45/photo where we use our judgment, or a custom service for $95/hour where we work with clients to select the most special images on which to do high-end retouching work.