|
- Sell your old photographs digitally via Libraries and to your clients
- Safeguard your photos by creating digital archives
- Add to your Digital Asset Management system
- Show the world what you've got - publish on the Internet!
- Preserve your photographic legacy
- Effectively fix and "dry print" your pre-digital photographs - and sell them!
- Save you time by digitising your photos within days instead of years!
Oscans was brought into existence in order to service photographers that have a need to transit to digital photography, but have a legacy of chemical (analogue) photos as prints, negatives and slides.
In order to do this, Oscans is able to do high volume scanning from 135 and 120 film strips, as well as from prints. Oscans can also handle single frames or mounted slides. We will even give a discount for slides supplied already loaded into Kodak Carousels. We will also give a discount for rolls that have not yet been cut.
Unlike many professional scanning services, we are not restricting you to decide what sized prints you want now. We believe that most people simply want the most pixels for their dollar.
Oscans uses "pro-lab" quality equipment, but our very low overheads means that we are extremely competitive with pricing while providing bulk scanning services.
We have found that many people have many questions about our simple service. Some of the answers are below; if you want more, then please go to Questions & Answers.
Why create digital archives? |
- To make a back-up copy in case of disaster
- To distribute copies to friends and family
- To commercially distribute your content
- To re-work favourite images for printing or publishing
- It is easier to manage digital assets
A great thing to do with scans of old negatives is to re-construct the exposure and composition. How many times did you get prints back that just did not look "right"? You can now do those things with colour photos that you used to in the darkroom with black and white. You can even remove blemishes.
|
What to do with film cameras? |
Keep them! You can get a lot of scans with your existing film gear. You can keep doing this until the digital systems become good enough and cheap enough for you to convert. Why sell your film gear now for digital equipment that is not the same quality? Why give up your super wide-angle lenses? If you use medium format, the conversion cost to all-digital is in the order of $40-50,000 or more.
Oscans can get around 20 megapixels (60 megabytes) from 135 film, and around 40 megapixels (120 megabytes) from 120. You can shoot a lot of film until you wait for digital formats to catch up. Would you replace all your digital equipment again when next year's models are released? With Oscans prices, you can get a lot of pixels for your dollar.
|
What is the process? |
You send us your developed film. (We can now also develop film.) We also accept mounted slides and even prints. All negatives are handled with clean white gloves, and our scanning equipment does not contact the film surface with anything except light. |
Individual negatives |
Please put stickers on the negative sleeves to prevent ambiguities. You may also want to send a list of negatives; use the numbered silver film processing sticker that your lab put on the film to help identify them. DO NOT MARK THE NEGATIVES, only the sleeves. The files will be numbered sequentially as "smith-001, smith-002, etc", and the filename may not be the same as the negative number. |
Uncut rolls |
If the rolls are uncut, we can do high resolution scans from the whole roll at a great price. This applies to both negatives and positives. The frame numbers may be misnumbered by 1-2 frames, as the first image on a roll can be "XA", then "00", followed by "0", which causes numbering ambiguities. |
Mounted slides |
Just send us the slides in air proof container. Alternatively, contact us to make an appointment for us to scan while-you-wait. We are able to scan hundreds of slides per hour. If you provide us with the slides already mounted in carousels, we will give you a discount of $5 per carousel, $10 for each subsequent carousel in that session. |
More Questions? |
Click here or contact us on 1300 138 970 or e-mail scan@oscans.com. |
Special Services |
Note that we can do an excellent electronic cleaning process called Digital ICE, which even works on Kodachrome.
We are constantly developing new services. If you have a special requirement, contact us on 1300 138 970 or e-mail us. |
|
