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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 [...]

Helping the folks in Santa Cruz

A major reason people choose to have their analog images converted into digital files is fear of loss. We all know that the first thing we want to grab when running out of our burning or flooding home (besides our family and pets) is our photographs. Unfortunately, it is too hard to grab [...]

HAPPY 232nd BIRTHDAY, U.S. MARINES!

It is with great pride that I wish all my fellow Marines, past and present, a joyful and wonderful Birthday!  Our beloved Corps is a young and healthy 232 years of age.  232 years of leading the charge and insuring our freedom.  Below I present the Commandant’s Birthday Message as well as that of General [...]