Back in 2003, Kodak announced that they will no longer produce and sell slide projectors. Before long,
it could be nearly impossible to buy a slide projector or replacement bulbs for
the projectors.
Scanned film ensures the digital capture and restoration of the image from the
film before any further degradation takes place. The longer your slides and
negatives sit around, the more likely they are to suffer serious degradation
from fading, scratches, mold
and mildew, loss, or damage.
Scanned images that are stored on CD can be copied and stored in a safe location
like a bank vault. When your images are transferred from your slides and/or
negatives and placed on CD, you have much easier access to your images without
dragging out the slide projector and screen.
Use our "Peace
of Mind" service and we will keep a digital backup copy of all your
images for you for 10 years.
Scanning film gives better results than scanning paper photos. This is true because
the film is the original image and not a second-generation copy. This means that
the film contains much greater detail than you can ever extract from paper photos. A
major benefit of film is that it offers a much greater contrast range than can
be extracted from paper photos.
What Are Some Things I Can Do With My Scanned Images?
One of the great things about having your photo library captured to a digital format is that you have the freedom to do anything you
want with the images.
Print photos from the scanned digital images. You can create printed photos using
your own photo printer of choose from several on-line and local companies that
will create prints from the digital images that we provide to you on disc.
We have created a FAQ page containing several companies to choose from HERE
Capture and archive your family history heirloom with photos
Make copies of the CD-ROM’s and give them to everyone at your next family reunion.
Create DVD Video Movies of your digitized photo library so that your computer challenged parents and grandparents can easily enjoy the slide show without having to drag out the old slide projector and a screen.
Create lasting memorable gifts for Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries, war veteran memorials …
Use the digitized images in a PowerPoint presentation for your company, classroom, or seminar.
…and the list goes on and on.
Cost Benefits
Are you in a situation now where your old Kodak, Airequipt or Bell & Howell projector doesn’t work anymore and needs expensive repair? Even replacing the lamps in these old projectors can be extremely expensive – if you can even find a replacement bulb.
Once you have your slides and negatives digitized, the cost of making duplicate
CD's is dirt-cheap. This makes it unbelievably affordable to share your family photo collection with every member of your family.
It also allows you to keep a backup set of CD's in a bank safe deposit
box. Then should a disaster strike your home, you will always have a
backup of your irreplaceable photos in a safe place. Try doing that with slides!
Business Applications
Digital presentations are becoming more and more common and you need a quick,
convenient means to convert your slides into digital files for electronic use.
Whether you are a business traveler, educator, medical or dental professional,
or in sales and marketing, you can benefit from transferring your 35mm slide
presentation to digital format. We offer economical slide conversion
services that will make the transition from slides to digital files seamless.
Instead of lugging a slide projector and all of your slides through airports and
hotels, you will now be able to put your entire presentation on a single CDROM.
By having your slides converted to digital format, you will have your images for
a lifetime of use and the ability to retrieve them on demand. You
will be able to store thousands of images in a space the size of a small binder,
and index them for ease of locating. Unlike 35mm slides, digital images will not
deteriorate from the heat and light generated by the slide projector.
Just imagine how much your family would enjoy seeing all
of those old slides again.
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Save Those Memories:
Turn your photo clutter into a digital archive of lasting memories.
If shoe boxes crammed with forgotten images clutter your basement, we may be the answer to your spring cleaning blues.
We can digitize all of your photographs, slides, and negatives.
Remember baby's cake-smudged smile at age one?
Or the huge sand castle you built while vacationing in Florida?
What about the 1968 Halloween party where you dressed up like Elvis?
With your photos digitized, a trip down memory lane only requires a few mouse clicks or your TV remote.
Most people have the good intentions of going through the archiving process but it's so time consuming that they usually give up and their memories are left in the closet to literally fade away. Don't let that happen to you.
ADVISORY
Larsen Digital will never send your film to another country for scanning.
When searching for a reputable company to transfer and preserve your irreplaceable memories make sure that they won't be sending your film to another country to take advantage of cheap labor rates.
Several relatively new film scanning companies have popped up overnight which are sending the film to India, Costa Rica, and other countries to have the work done. This practice explains the "too good to be true" pricing. It's bad enough that they are doing this with their customer's priceless memories, but the fact that they are not even up front with their customers about this practice is disgusting in our opinion.
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The Atlantic Hurricane Season officially begins on June 1st
Save your irreplaceable memories by having them digitized before disaster strikes.
Take advantage of our Peace of Mind Service
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Our Superior Equipment
We use the finest film scanners on the market today for professional use -- Nikon's Super Coolscan 5000 ED slide scanner offers 4,000 dpi true optical resolution, for superior-quality digital images. Furthermore, the Super
Coolscan scanners feature industry-leading scanning speeds that translate into lower costs for our customers. Our scanners have high end components such as:
Nikkor ED lens - The single most important element in the production of high-quality scans is the lens. Nikon has incorporated lenses of the highest quality in each film scanner. ED (Extra-low Dispersion) lens elements are far superior in edge-to-edge sharpness, definition and contrast, as well as color registration, saturation and accuracy.
Low-heat, high-accuracy LED light source - Most scanners use halogen or fluorescent lamps as light sources, but they require time to warm up and the heat they generate can cause damage to film. Our Nikon scanners are the only scanners to employ LEDs as the source of light. LEDs are a stable, precise light source, which require no maintenance or warm-up time and present no risk of your film being damaged.
Digital ICE4 Advanced - Nikon's ED glass and LED lighting help to optimize the effectiveness of Digital ICE4 Advanced components, making Nikon Coolscan scanners and ICE a perfect match.
Nikon color Management System (CMS) - Nikon CMS provides consistently accurate reproduction of image data on monitors and in printouts.
We are the premier provider of slide and film scanning services, 35mm negative film scanning services, and slide scanning service. We convert negatives to digital photos, digitize old photos, convert 35mm negative to CD’s and DVD’s (DVD Picture Show, Photo DVD, or sometimes referred to as a slideshow video.We can convert your photos into industry standard file formats like JPEG (jpg) and TIFF (tif).
But all of this is just the technical jargon for what we really do. We preserve your priceless family memories on CD or DVD so that your children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren can all benefit and enjoy their pictorial family history. The film in your closet is deteriorating more and more everyday.
Why wait – get your film out of the closet and have it digitized for permanent restoration and preservation. Your film is priceless. Make sure you have a professional scan service like Larsen Digital Service digitally restore and preserve your film. If you have been hunting for a digital photo service – look no further. You have found the best ! Just read our client list and reviews to find out for yourself.
We are the premier provider of slide and film scanning services, 35mm negative film scanning services, and slide scanning service. We convert negatives to digital photos, digitize old photos, convert 35mm negative to CD’s and DVD’s (DVD Picture Show, Photo DVD, or sometimes referred to as a slideshow video.We can convert your photos into industry standard file formats like JPEG (jpg) and TIFF (tif).
But all of this is just the technical jargon for what we really do. We preserve your priceless family memories on CD or DVD so that your children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren can all benefit and enjoy their pictorial family history. The film in your closet is deteriorating more and more everyday.
Why wait – get your film out of the closet and have it digitized for permanent restoration and preservation. Your film is priceless. Make sure you have a professional scan service like Larsen Digital Service digitally restore and preserve your film. If you have been hunting for a digital photo service – look no further. You’ve found the best ! Just read our client list and reviews to find out for yourself.
Larsen is who we are,
Digital is our profession, and our
Service is what we are most proud of.
