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Holiday Photo Caption Contest

Congrats to Richard, whose post #72 wins the prize–all of his scanning charges, waived!

The holidays are always full of everything–the good, the bad, and the ugly. And also, we should say, the hilarious.

The photo above is from one of our employee family collections (scanned by ScanCafe, naturally). For fun, write your own funny, fitting, and [...]

Your Most Memorable Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving (we suppose along with Christmas) is a holiday that is perhaps uniquely enriched with a sense of the past. This year’s turkey has to get compared to last year’s, and some family member is sure to reminisce to a child at the table about what Thanksgiving was like when HE was little. It almost [...]

Holiday Shipping Dates at ScanCafe

There are 4 kinds of holiday-related ScanCafe gifts that we can deliver by December 23, 2009, depending on when you place your order:

GIFT
DELIVERY REQUIREMENTS

ScanCafe scanning order
NEW! With Express Service, available as a small surcharge per order of 400 standard media images or less, you can place your order and ship to us as late as [...]

Halloween When You Were a Kid

UPDATE: congrats to AnnMarie (comment no. 120 below), who won our grand prize! We’re waiving all scanning charges on her order. And thanks to everbody who participated–there’s some really spooky stuff in here! 

Halloween has changed a lot in the last 30-40 years, and we’re interested in learning what it was like when you were young. [...]

100 million Kodachromes

I love a good coincidence.
Yesterday, Kodak announced its intention to retire Kodachrome – on the exact same day that we completed our 25 millionth scan.
The subtlety of this confluence is not lost on us here at ScanCafe: Kodachrome, long loved by photographers for its vibrant colors, is also pretty much the only Kodak development process [...]