Preserve your black-and-white film negatives with ScanCafe's professional scanning service. Our trained technicians carefully scan and repair your negatives, helping reveal the details in photographs that may have been tucked away for decades.
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Black-and-white negatives need specialized attention to capture their details and address visible imperfections. Here's what you get when you scan with ScanCafe.
Black-and-white negatives can be challenging to scan because scratches and dust may become especially noticeable in the resulting digital images. Our scanning process is designed to address these challenges, combining careful scanning with individual image correction to help preserve the details in every frame.
Your negatives hold memories that may be impossible to replace. We process your collection at our Indianapolis lab, where items are weighed, logged, and monitored by CCTV. Our team takes care throughout the digitization process, and your original negatives are returned after processing.
Turn your black-and-white negatives into digital images you can view, organize, and share. Access your digitized collection through the available delivery options, so your photographs are easier to revisit without handling the original film.
We've designed the whole process
to be as pain-free as possible.
Pack your black-and-white negatives securely and ship them to ScanCafe using the instructions provided with your order.
Your negatives are received and processed at our Indianapolis lab. Our team handles your original film throughout the digitization process.
Once processing is complete, access your digitized photographs through the delivery option selected for your order. Your original negatives are returned to you.
Scratches and dust can be especially noticeable in black-and-white negative scans. Our correction process helps address these imperfections. Every scan includes the following corrections at no additional cost:
Image orientation
Photo cropping
Light scratches and dust removalFor images that need extra care, we also offer restoration services.
Your black-and-white negatives hold photographs that may never have been printed or shared. We take care to preserve their details throughout the digitization process.
Our technicians give each image individual attention instead of relying solely on automated processing. This approach allows us to review the results and apply corrections as needed, helping you get digital versions of your photographs without spending hours scanning and editing them yourself.
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Most people have thousands of pictures in different formats. Over time, it's common for slides, negatives, prints, and videos to shift in color, fade, and get damaged. Professional scanning restores and preserves these precious memories so you can enjoy them for years to come. Scanning photos also provides other benefits, including:
If most of your photo collection is comprised of negatives, scanning them is preferred to prints because:
Absolutely. It is critical that we get as much of the original photograph as possible. You can refer to our restoration gallery for examples of torn photos that have been restored.
Our office hours are 9:30 am to 5:00 pm EST Monday to Friday, closed Saturday and Sunday. During office hours, we make every effort to respond to emails within six hours and return voice mails within four hours.
Friendly, first-class service. My most recent project involving the scanning of a few hundred photos, many over 75 years old, was fantastic. The finished qualit...
When I started this process I was skeptical. How can I just pack up all my precious pictures and send them off somewhere? As it turned out this was the best thi...
I sent about 130 pictures in to be put on a USB stick, and very pleased with the result. Digital images look great, and I shared with my family. Very happy with...
ScanCafe was a great place to have my photo negatives turned into digital images. The images came out great and the negatives came back to me in perfect conditi...
I just finished downloading the digital files from a dozen old 16MM family films that I submitted. All of them were shot in the mid to late 1950's and were sure...
Scancafe delivered high quality 35 mm slide scan as promised. Customer service was effecient. Important memories were rescued :)
Helpful staff, careful treatment of our slides, great care with keeping slides in order, and packaging them for posting. Highly recommend
I have trusted ScanCafe (nee GoPhoto) with many, many treasured photographs over the years. They are always returned exactly the way I sent them and I am absolu...
Great service and quality wrt digitizing some of my APS film.
