September 22nd, 2017 by ScanCafe | 0
After this ScanCafe customer recently converted hundreds of family photographs and 8mm movies to digital, he was moved enough to share some of the pictures, along with a few details.
Here is his story – a simple but engaging account of life in the 1960s by the mountains:
Although the photo digitization project had been on my mind for a long time, it always lagged on the “back burner” as time went on. But when my beautiful mother, the matriarch of our family and our extended families passed away this past April, I felt the need to recapture some of our family history. I am sorry I did not do this sooner so that she could enjoy the results too.
(more…)
Filed under: 8mm Movie Scanning, 8mm movies to digital, Film Scanning, photo scanning.
September 5th, 2017 by ScanCafe | 0
ScanCafe customer Jan shares this incredibly gripping account of her search for a ‘mystery’ family member:
Who is she? Where does she live? Is she still alive? What does she look like? Can I see a picture of her? What happened to her? Why don’t you talk about her? These are a few of the questions I always had about my father’s only sister and sibling. I only knew she was eight years older than my father and that her name was Geneva. But she always remained the “mystery woman” in my life. (more…)
Filed under: photo restoration.
August 24th, 2017 by ScanCafe | 0
Portland photographer Kati Dimoff often walks into thrift stores looking for old cameras that might have undeveloped film rolls in them. She has unearthed several old and intriguing photos as a result of this hobby.
One film roll she chanced upon earlier this year was even more significant because it had photos of a historic Oregon event – the volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980. The camera, it turned out, belonged to an Oregon woman who passed away in 1981. After the story of Dimoff’s special find appeared in a local newspaper, her grandson Mel Purvis came forward to identify his grandmother, Faye Gardner, as the owner of the camera.
(more…)
Filed under: Haunting and Soulful Images, Old and Intriguing Photos, Photography.
August 16th, 2017 by ScanCafe | 0
Every order we get at ScanCafe – whether it involves scanning photos, digitizing negatives, or restoring damaged images – is processed manually and with a lot of attention to detail. We think it makes a difference and are thrilled when customers think so too.
We recently completed a slide digitization order for a wonderful customer named Cheryl. Many of the images in her collection were close to sixty years old but there was no way to tell by the time our photo restoration team was done with them. (more…)
Filed under: Digitizing Negatives, photo restoration, photo scanning, Scanning Photos, Timeless pics and a Story.
August 9th, 2017 by ScanCafe | 0
You have finally done it! Digitized your entire analog image collection – possibly with some help from your favorite film and photo scanning service. This essentially means that you have insured years of precious memories from being lost, damaged or destroyed. You should feel good about the achievement. But you are not really done until you have backed them up properly. An external hard drive is a good place to start but you need something more to keep your memories safe. Truly, really safe.
(more…)
Filed under: Cloud Storage, photo scanning, photo scanning service.
