Digitizing negatives helps you archiving your old negatives safely and provides you with the possibility of printing several photos analogously.
During the time of analog photography, digitizing negatives in photo laboratories has been really expensive. Nowadays, digital image processing is ordinary. Scanned negatives can be easily transformed into positives by using a computer and therefore be duplicated as a „normal“ photo. Many photographers want to scan their old negatives in order to have their picture library available on their computer.
For the purpose of digitizing your negatives, you can buy an own scanner. Unfortunately, this is associated with high costs and an enormous amount of time. Another possibility is digitizing negatives proceeded by a service provider. You just have to find a good offer. Meanwhile, there are professional solutions which are affordable at the same time. Quality and price should be right if you wish to scan your valuable negatives and save the moments for the future.
Scanning negatives on your own costs time and money
Let us remember: In the past, you brought your negatives to a photo shop and hoped to get back great photo prints. Another possibility was having an own small laboratory.
Nowadays, thanks to modern image editing programs and photo printers, there would be easy possibilities if data were available in digital form
Nevertheless, millions of analog image carriers are stored in German households, which are not available in digital format and which decompose over time. Unique pictures can thereby be lost forever. In order to save your archive and to use your pictures creatively in the future, you should definitely digitize your negatives.
At this there are several possibilities available. You could buy your own scanner and scan your negatives one by one. Thanks to several possible settings you could be creative. One condition therefore is a certain knowledge regarding how to deal with its technique. As you need time and effort in order to get high quality pictures which have a great emotional value for you, the quality of the process of digitizing negatives definitely has to be right. Therefore, you should dig deep into your pocket when buying an own scanner. It is important to ponder whether it will be profitable to buy an expensive equipment which you might use just once. If you in the meantime exclusively photograph analogously, you might use your scanner only until all old photos are digitized. Keep in mind as well the size of your archive. If you possess a bunch of negatives and just little time, the process of digitizing all your slides might last for months.
Affordable solutions from professionals
One alternative is therefore, letting a professional service provider scan your negatives. Therefore it is worth to examine all offerings carefully. Small photo shops usually only own simple scanner-models which you could as well buy in trade. It is questionable whether quality and price are right. In addition problems might occur if you want to digitize a great amount of negatives. On the one hand, the great amount can overexert the provider. On the other hand, such a big order can easily cost a lot.
The negative-digitizing-service of MEDIAFIX GmbH offers you a solution for such a problem. The self-developed scanners of our firm run quicker and with a higher resolution than usual models. In addition they are able to scan a greater quantity. That is why digitizing negatives is low-priced for the customer. As we additionally digitize slides and photo prints, we are able to offer you an all-around package for your analog pictures. Further information can be found here: