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Digitizing services offered to our Vermont clients
If you have it, we can almost certainly convert it to digital.
Photo Scanning Services Available in VT
All photo scans include 600 DPI resolution, clean crops, proper orientation and overall optimization. We also handle letters, frames, and oversized scans, and offer advanced organizing on larger collections.
Video Conversion Services Available in VT
Fair, predictable pricing for video tape transfers to DVD or USB. We convert all tape formats to digital including VHS, MiniDV, Hi8/8mm, Beta and more. Written tape labels are included in DVD menus and digital filenames.
Album & Scrapbook Scanning Services Available in VT
We scan more photo albums than any digitizing service nationwide. You may choose full page scans or individually scanned and cropped images. Everything is scanned and returned in order, as you give it to us.
Film Reel Conversion Services Available in VT
Our film capture brings old move movie reels back to life. We offer up to 2K HD capture for Super8, 8mm and 16mm film transfers to DVD or USB. Damaged or moldy reels are repaired for you.
Slide & Negative Scanning Services Available in VT
We scan 35mm slides, large transparency negatives, and much more. Scanning is available up to 4,000 DPI and includes dust removal, cropping and optimizing.
Audio Transfers Services Available in VT
We not only capture audio for you, but we include cleaning it up so you have good sound. Audio reel-to-reel tapes, audio cassette tapes, vinyl LP records and more can be converted to CD or USB via .mp3 or .wav files.
In-Home Organizing Available in VT
Consultations that come to you by our certified organizers and consultants. This option is great for larger projects.
Let us take the work out of organizing your photo and video collection so you can spend less time searching and more time sharing.
Fully personalized, one-of-a-kind family photo book designs. Be involved in the process as much or as little as you like.
Slideshows combining a custom selection of photos, videos, music and more; Work with our team of expert designers to create a unique slideshow personalized for any occasion.
Perfect for special events, we’ll help you turn hours of raw footage into something a little more streamlined. Common projects include highly videos, family documentaries and more.
How to get digitizing projects started in Vermont
HOME PICKUPS
We can come to you. We are now offering no-contact doorstep pickups in the Northeast. We will retrieve your items from your home and contact you to provide a full estimate and consultation.
MAIL ORDERS
We accept mail-in orders from all across the U.S. Use our form to reserve space in our schedule and we’ll contact you once we receive your items to provide a full estimate and consultation.
DROP OFFS
Our network of 40+ satellite drop-off locations are mostly available for appointments with increased safety measures and limited hours. Use our form or call us to book an appointment.
VERMONT DIGITIZING DROP OFF LOCATIONS
Vermont
We have five secure locations for Vermont families - one in Brattleboro and four just across the border in neighboring states.
10 Green St, Brattleboro, VT 05301
At The Vermont Center For Photography
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69 Hanover Street, Lebanon, NH 03766
At The Gilded Edge Frame Shop & Gallery
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Vermont Home & Office Pickup Service
Doorstep Pickups are Available. Ask about optional Zoom organizing sessions.
Vermont families have a deep history, and with it can come many tubs and boxes of photo albums, slide carousels and VHS tapes. We're happy to drive to any corner of Vermont to help with the heavy lifting. Doorstep pickups are easily scheduled based on the schedule below. You will get a call before your appointment so 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 materials at our studio, everything is evaluated in advance of a detailed phone consultation. But some clients prefer more preparation in advance. If so, please don't by shy to request a virtual appointment. 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.
Thursday: Upper Valley, Montpelier Area
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Did you know this Vermont History?
- Emma Willard started teaching scientific and classical courses to women in 1814. She did this out of her home after noticing a gap between male and female education. She eventually gained the attention of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams in 1819.
- Vermont is the first state to recognize civil unions between same-sex couples in 2000.
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.
A Vermont Romance
One of the earliest films shot in Vermont was a silent-era film from 1916 titled ‘A Vermont Romance.’ The film tells the story of a down on her luck young woman who moves to Burlington to start a new life. The film was shot on site in Burlington and offers glimpses of the city as it was over a century ago. Scenes include images of structures that can still be recognized today.
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