Vermont’s Choice for Photo Scanning and Video to Digital Services
Three decades’ experience digitizing slides, VHS tapes and more
Digitizing services offered to our Vermont clients
Our team has the technical experience to convert anything you bring us to digital.
Photo Scanning Service
Our scanning is at 600 DPI high resolution on professional-grade scanners. Whether scanning photos, frames, letters or oversized items, everything is cropped, oriented, optimized, labeled and kept in order.
Album & Scrapbook Scanning Services Available in NY
Our expertise here is nationally recognized. We scan the delicate albums other companies won’t touch. All photo albums are returned as they were once scanned, and you may pick from full-page scans or individually cropped images.
Slides To Digital
35mm slides and negative scans are most common, but we are also capable of scanning rare format transparencies like 220s, 127s, glass plates, stereo slides and more. Scanning up to 4,000 DPI includes dust removal and optimizing.
Our video tape transfers are clean and predictably and affordably priced. We digitize tapes to DVD or USB, including VHS, Hi8/8mm, MiniDV, Beta and more. All video to digital files are Mac/PC compatible.
Audio Transfers Services Available in NY
Reel-to-reel audio and cassette tapes are the most popular choices for digital transfer, but we can also transfer vinyl, DAT and other audio formats. Audio correction is included, and you may choose .wav or .mp3 files to CD or USB.
Film To Digital
Film reels are captured on custom made transfer machines at up to 2K HD. We can deal with moldy reels, damaged reels or reels with sound for 8mm, Super8 and 16mm home movie film transfers. Digital files are available on DVD or USB.
Your entire digital media collection, de-cluttered, de-duplicated, and organized by our professional digital organizing technicians.
Custom crafted and fully personalized photo book designs. Work directly with a designer with as much or as little involvement as you like.
Slideshows combining a custom selection of photos, videos, music and more; personalized for any event by our team of expert designers.
Turn hours of raw footage into something even more special. Perfect for creating highly videos, family documentaries and more.
How to get digitizing projects started in Vermont
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.
VERMONT DIGITIZING DROP OFF LOCATIONS
Vermont
Vermont Home & Office Pickup Service
Doorstep Pickups with
optional Zoom prep sessions
Many families have dozens of boxes or tubs of photo albums and VHS tapes. They can be hard to lift and challenging to organize. For many, having us visit their home to the heavy lifting makes all the difference, and we’re thrilled to do it. Doorstep pickups are easily scheduled based on the schedule below. You will get a call before your appointment where you can let us know exactly where you left your project (doorstep, porch, etc) and we will safely pick it up. Everything is packed in weatherproof bins and barcoded before being taken to our state-of-the-art lab for processing.
Once we have your photos and videos in hand, we do a detailed inventory and a phone session to make all of the decisions about the scanning process. But if you’d like to get a bit more prepared upfront, let us know and we’re happy to do a Zoom based virtual organizing session. One of our senior consultants will schedule a Zoom call with you to offer their expertise and to simplify the process of organizing and preparing for digitizing. Afterward, we will schedule a doorstep pickup to safely take the material to our lab and bring it back when the project is wrapped up.
VERMONT’S EARLY CONNECTIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY
Photographer Samuel A. Bemis (1793 – 1881) was born in Marlboro, VT and has ties to both Boston and New Hampshire. His brief career in photography began after he spontaneously purchased an early version Daguerreotype camera in 1840. During the winter of 1841 he began photographing scenes around Boston. The following summer he relocated to New Hampshire where he continued his photography, capturing images of the White Mountains around Crawford Notch. He would go on to abandon photography altogether the following year, moving on to pursue other interests. Despite the brevity of his contribution, Bemis is credited as one of earliest photographers in the country and the first American to photograph natural landscapes.
The First Copper Mine
The first copper mine in the country operated in Strafford, VT, from 1793 through the 1950s.
Did you know that daguerreotypes, one of the earliest photography techniques, commonly made use of copper?
The daguerreotype became the first publicly available photographic process in the early 1840s. It was used commonly through the 1860s until being replaced somewhat suddenly but less expensive and more reliable photographic forms.
The Daguerreotype process started with a thin metal plate, usually copper, which was then coated and polished with a layer of silver. This was the foundation to which light sensitive chemicals would eventually be applied, exposed to light, and developed.
Perhaps it is unsurprising that Vermont was home to Wilson Bently, the first known photographer of snowflakes. He is credited with perfecting the delicate technique of collecting snowflakes in a way that allowed them to be clearly photographed.
Born 1865 in Jericho, VT, Bently was fascinated with snow crystals as a boy. As a teenager he attempted to hand draw the shape of the snowflakes he placed under his microscope. Unfortunately he soon discovered the images were too complex to completely copy before the snowflakes melted. This eventually led him to attach a bellows camera to the microscope so that images could instead be photographed.
Though the snowflakes could now be photographed the challenge remained in how to collect the snowflakes and present them in such a way that they did not either melt or sublimate. Initially this involved collecting snowflakes on a blackboard and immediately transferring them to a microscope slide. Bently eventually refined the process instead catching and photographing the snowflakes on a section of black velvet.
By the end of his career he had developed a catalog consisting of hundreds of thousands snowflake and ice crystal images. His work was so successful that for nearly 100 years after his work hardly anyone bothered to photograph snowflakes. On a somewhat related note, Bentley was also one of the first people to argue for the idea that no two snowflakes are alike.