{"id":4620,"date":"2010-09-13T15:09:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T21:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicolesy.com\/?p=4620"},"modified":"2018-07-12T20:19:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T01:19:50","slug":"my-scancafe-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicolesy.com\/2010\/09\/13\/my-scancafe-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"My ScanCafe Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a LOT of old negatives … not super old, mostly from the late 1990’s when I was in High School, but I took a ton of photos during those years. I also am somewhat of an organization-freak and kept pretty much all of them filed away in contact sheets and even have many of them labeled with the month\/year and also some info on where the images were photographed. Stuff like that was important to keep track of since there was no such thing as metadata with film photos (unless you had a specialized camera attachment, which most photogaphers did not).<\/p>\n

Ever since hearing about ScanCafe<\/a> through podcasts and websites such as Photofocus<\/a> and TWiP<\/a> I have really wanted to try them out, since it would be nice to have my negatives digitized and backed-up on my computer. So a few months ago I did just that. I picked out about 10 contact sheets of negs and packaged them up and sent them to ScanCafe, and I have to say the process was smooth. I received a\u00a0notification\u00a0when my negatives arrived, were being scanned, and when they were shipped back and I even was able to track the progress via their website (see photo below).<\/p>\n

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Overall I’m really impressed. The image quality is pretty good and, like I said, the process was really simple and smooth. Here are some of the pluses that I experienced when using this service:<\/p>\n