Disc Film to Digital Scanning Services
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.
Standard & custom disc film scanning pricing
A $45 service fee applies to all orders. This service fee provides for safe handling procedures including: intake, item coding, physical & digital storage, quality checks by senior technicians and packaging.
- Extra USB: Ask your consultant
- Stereo slides behind glass, or metal: Ask your consultant
- Captions in file name or metadata: $0.99/ea
- Add advanced foldering: $0.15/image
- Advanced organizing (keyword search, etc): $95/hour
- Private website: first 180 days free, then $80/year
- Extra DVD or CD: $15 Standard, $20 Archival
- Extra USB: ask your consultant
- Add label transcription to Digital Only: $2/tape
- Private website free for 6 months
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.
Everything you need to know
about disc negative scanning
Glass Plate Negatives
Glass plate negatives – another rare negative format.
Read more on glass plate negatives…
Get to know 35mm Negatives
They’re more common than disc film – catch our post on 35mm negatives!
More on 35mm negatives here…
Negative Film Q&A
We talked to Roger, our photo department specialist, all about negative film.
Learn from the master…
There’s no easy way to scan disc negatives. We use special trays to hold them steady, and scan each frame one-at-a-time. 35mm film is the most common format, so while we’ve streamlined our scanning process for that breed to save you money, any non-standard film interrupts our workflow and takes more time to get the best scans possible.
Sadly, it doesn’t work. Viewmaster uses two photos to get a 3D effect, but disc film photos are only 2D. Disc film is also color negative, so the colors in each image will look backwards when viewed as-is. You’ll need these scanned to properly view whatever was photographed.
Disc negatives were discontinued in 1997, so the film itself is at least 20-something years old. The photos stored on that film could be younger depending on when they were shot. Kodak phased out disc film cameras in the late ’80s, though, so it’s unlikely that most of these cameras have outlived the film.
You can print anything from film – the real question is, will it look good? Photos on disc negatives are so tiny that there’s a limit to how much detail they can hold. We recommend opting for high-resolution scanning if you’re after the best possible enlargements. Results will vary!
Get an estimate on your Disc Film to Digital Scanning project!
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- 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 photos and videos into beautiful digital memories that you can share with others.
“EverPresent was great! They digitized some very old negatives for me … These negatives were some of the only record of my family’s farm. Kate was very interested in my project and extremely helpful! Kate and her team worked very hard and I could not be happier with the results. They were professional, courteous and very accommodating to my wishes and needs … I will absolutely work with them on my next project.”
– Craig G.