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Airequipt Magazines
Q: While I was out of town the magazines I ordered arrived in great shape and they are exactly what I needed. Thanks!
Best,
Dale
A.
Dale,
Please keep us in mind when you finally get around to converting your slides to digital. Eventually your slides are going to fade away and the sooner they are converted, the better the image.
See our page on Light and Dark fading films.
110 Slide scanning
I have approximately 260 slides taken with kodak 110 film in 1973 and put into 1×1 mounts. I simply want them scanned and put onto CD in jpg format.
Do you do this, and what would be the cost per slide?
Thank you.
ANSWER:
Yes, we do it.
Cost is $1 per slide. Includes scanning, Photoshop editing and disk.
Nice job every step of the way
The CD of your captured images and returned slides arrived safely thisafternoon. Nice job every step of the way! thanks, s.
Inherited slides
I inherited a bunch of my dad
s old slides – I am sure that not all are worth archiving but am curious as to how this works. Sharon
ANSWER:
We scan the slides that you send us. Then we Photoshop edit each scan to try to adjust color, contrast and sharpness. Then we create a DVD slide show disk which also stores the images so you can pull them off onto your computer, if you want.
Our price is 39 cents each if you have 50 or a million.
10 reels of sldies
I live in Milwaukee. trying to get a base line fee for 10 reels of slides to be converted to dvd and does anything happen to the slides or are they just returned when finished, also how long does process take and are you insured. Thank You.
ANSWER:
Our 39 cent price covers scanning, Photoshop editing and a DVD slide show disk.
The slides are returned when we are finished. Nobody can insure your slides. They are irreplaceable in their present state. Get them digitized and they can be preserved forever.
We have been doing this for over eight years now. We are members of two chambers of commerce and BBB certified.
Polaroid Photo Enlargment
Question:
i have a color polaroid picture. i am wondering if you can enlarge it and make it black and white-thanks
Reply:
Yes, we can do that.
Images look different on different monitors
QUESTION:
Thank you guys very much. It really was fun to share our 52 year old wedding,honeymoon pictures with the grand children.
I have a question regarding the DVD. It seems the image of the proofs on the web site have more color and sharpness than the DVD. Is this normal? and would it have been better to have you burn a CD?
Frank
ANSWER:
Frank,
The images are all the same except the images on the website are just lower resolution versions of the same images on the disks.
Possibly what you are seeing is the difference between viewing on different mediums. CRT TVs, LCD TVs, Computer Monitors and etc. all have different settings and resolutions for viewing and the same images will look different on these different devices. The only thing that stays the same is the images. If you go into a Best Buy or similar store where they have their computer monitors or TVs all tuned to the same channel, you will see a wide difference in colors, brightness and etc.
Duplicate Disk Sets | Thrilled With Slide Show
I am writing to order 5 sets of data discs and one replacement set of DVDs that my mother misplaced somewhere.
Please give an invoice and I will send you a check as always, or we could do a credit card over the phone if needed.
Many thanks
Laurence K., MD
PS- my parents and family are thrilled with the slide shows. They dominate every family get together.
Disc Negatives
I could not find on your site if you digitize Kodak Disc Pac negatives. I have 14 of these with about 10-14 negatives on each from 1980-1984. They are little circles with the negatives attached, similar to a Disk Finder/Veiw Master? found at tourist venues. I had the photos developed originally but they have since faded and not suitable for scanning. Can you digitize these negatives.
I also have lots (400?) of negatives from a Kodak 110 camera from the 80′s. I had the film developed originally and would like the negatives digitized. I saw where you did 110 slides, but these are the actual negatives, about 5-6 negatives to one piece of film? about the size of scotch tape.
Please advise. Have some other memorabilia needing scanning also. Need to deal with these right now.
Do you have ANY really good photo management system? I really wanted an interrelational database where you enter the photo once with key words or tags and then able to retrieve them and sort them on all the variables. I have been waiting for IPhoto for years, but they still only sort on Date, Event, and one name. I would like the Who(Persons), What(Events), When(Date), Where(location), and Why(Notes/Tags), and in group pictures to name to have the names come up individually and as a group.
I love ITUNES management system for music. You insert the CD once, auto or manually type in info and you can sort it on about 15 variables and make smart lists.
I have tries several others but they don’t seem to ‘do it’.
I heard about Google Picassa but found it only sorts on about 3 variables.
I have several thousand family photos, images, Videos clips, Documents for a family geneaolgy project. I use Family Tree Maker from Ancestry.com which can put individual photos with individual names, but fails when it comes to events and multiple persons in photos. I only have about 150 Key individual names, but one person can be 75 years worth of ‘stuff’. I tried Timeline, but it wouldn’t work with FTM, but they are trying.
I am tired of entering tags and then have the tags disappear to generic numbers when I transfer them somewhere.
I do have Adobe Photoshop elements, which I have not used yet, which claims to have an awesome photo management system, but when I kind of viewed it, it looks like I would need the Photoshop Pro or something like that. I just want to get all the things digitized first, then organized, then ‘clean them up’.
HELP! Thanks for whatever you can do and for info.
Patricia
How do you remove the films from the slide holder?
Question:
I have probably a couple thousand transparancies going back many years. I have a HP Photosmart but it requires the frames be removed before the slides can be downloaded. Is there a tool for this separation effort? What do you suggest? I figure this will be a lengthy winter project and I intend to add text graphics to each picture so people will understand what they are seeing. Thanks for any advice or suggestions you might have.
Answer:
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