Compare our photo scanning prices

In addition to being lower-priced than our competitors, our handcrafted quality has been recognized as the best. Also, customers with select photo formats only in their order (35mm color slides & negatives, paper photos to 8x10) may want to use our Value Kit, priced from 22¢ per scan.

	35mm Color Negatives at 10 MP	35mm Color Slides at 10 MP	Prints (to 5x7) at 600 dpi	DVD / CD	Min. purchase	Pay only for scans you want
Value Kit	$0.22¹	$0.22¹	$0.22¹	Free	$124.99	No
	$0.29	$0.29	$0.29	Free	None	Yes
	$0.78	$0.78	$0.59	$5 / $5	$5	No
	$0.60	$0.70	$0.50	Free	None	No
	$0.59	$0.59	$0.99	Free	$100	No
	$0.58	$0.68	$0.68	Free	None	No
	$0.40²	$0.36²	$0.22²	Free	$44.95	No
	$0.39	$0.39	$0.49	$6 / $12	No	Yes
	$0.39	$0.39	$0.49	$7 / $12	None	No

Price comparisons as of 4/10/2011.

Our standard service level is usually equivalent to the premium service level of other service providers, since ours includes high resolution and hand-scanning services for each of your photos: color correction, scratch & dust removal, red-eye removal, cropping, and re-orientation. Our price also includes organization of your scans into albums, according to the way you organize your order when you send it to us.

¹ Value Kit comes with 3 options - starting from $0.22/scan for a minimum of 2000 scans, $0.24/scan for a minimum of 1000 scans and $0.25/scan for a minimum of 500 scans.

² Assumes an order of 500 images.

Compare our video prices

We believe you only want to have your old video tapes digitized once, and to have it done right. That's why our technicans capture and edit them by hand, rather than running them through a machine. Yet our prices are among the lowest in the industry.

Total Cost For One 2-Hr VHS Tape & DVD	Digitizing	Color Correction	DVD	Archival DVD	Manual Chapterization
$17.99	Included	Yes	Included	Yes	Yes
$55.80	$45.90	Yes	$9.90	Yes	No
$25.99¹	Included	Yes	Included	No	No
$20.00	Included	No	Included	No	No
$19.98	$9.99	No	$9.99	Yes	No
$19.95	Included	No	Included	Yes	No
$17.99	Included	No	Included	No	No
$14.75	$10.95	Yes	Included	Yes	No

Non-promotional price comparisons, as of 5/01/2011.

¹ Minimum order of 5 video tapes required, for $129.95. Free return shipping included. Factoring return shipping in, the adjusted todal price per video tape would be approximately $2 less.

HD for the price of SD

Our approach to movie film begins with physical cleaning, then an HD scan at SD prices, and adds--at no charge--color correction and digital dust & scratch reduction, two things which are rarely available at any price. You can use the table below to see that for a typical project--1 hour of 8mm movie film--we could save you as much as $300, and still give you the best all-in quality available.

Transfer Type	Scanning Cost /Foot	Color Correction	Dust & Scratch Reduction	Output to DVD	Total Cost 800 Feet (1 Hr) 8mm Film to Std DVD	Total Cost /Foot	Custom DVD Menus
HD	$0.20	Free	Free	Free	$160.00	$0.20	Free
HD	$0.55¹	Free	Free	$49.90¹	$539.80	$0.61	Free
HD	$0.50	Free	No	$25.00	$434.00	$0.51	No
HD	$0.30	Free	No	$17.99	$269.82	$0.32	Free
SD	$0.28	No	No	Free	$224.00	$0.28	Free
HD	$0.25	No	No	Free	$200.00	$0.25	Free
SD	$0.20²	No	No	$49.90²	$209.90	$0.26	Free
SD	$0.16	No	No	Free	$127.20	$0.16	Free

Non-promotional price comparisons for an order of 800 feet of 8mm film, as of 9/20/2011. Note, many services charge much more for 16mm film (ScanCafe charges one flat price for both 8mm and 16mm).

¹ "Platinum" service level. Standard DVD charge is $19.95 per hour of film. The company also adds a $29.95 setup charge for each order, which we've included here in the entry for Output to Standard DVD.

² "Silver" service level. Output to Standard DVD entry above includes $19.95 per hour (at 1 hour) and a $29.95 setup charge.

³These companies charge a higher price for the first 100 feet of film. For Walgreens, it's $24.99; for Costco, it's $17.99.