Don't Let the Past Fade Away
Archival Memories offers specialized restoration services for your vintage media.
Convert your prints, negatives and analogue video digitally, and ensure that your family history is safeguarded for future generations to treasure.
Digitally Preserving History For the Future
By utilizing professional software, commercial scanning hardware and photo lab expertise, Archival Memories can scan and transform your physical archives into high quality, shareable digital media.
Album Scanning
High-resolution digitization of entire photo albums. To avoid damaging physical prints, all photos remain intact on their pages. They are never removed. Photos are digitally extracted from full page scans and saved as individual high resolution image files. Clarity and colour accuracy is maintained throughout this procedure, preserving your photos for future generations.
FAQ
Q: Can you scan photo enlargements?
A: Yes, up to 11" x 14". Archival Memories utilizes a large-format commercial scanner designed specifically for high resolution archival, photography and graphic arts applications. The scanner can accommodate media up to 12.2" x 17.2", with a maximum optical resolution of 2400 dpi.
Q: I have a closet full of photo albums, and would like to digitize the photos. How does that work?
A: All photo albums are treated with the utmost care and respect. As each page is individually scanned, photos are never removed from the album. This eliminates the risk of accidental damage. Each scanned photo is then cropped, straightened and saved as a shareable 300 dpi .JPG and a 16-bit, 600 dpi .TIFF digital copy negative.
Q: What type of film negatives are you able to scan?
A: Archival Memories can scan lab processed 35mm film negatives, medium format negatives, large 4" x 5" negatives and 35mm slides (including Kodachrome). All negatives are scanned using professional lab quality colour profiles, ensuring your images will look their absolute best.
Q: What is the turnaround time?
A: It all depends on the size of the order.
Small batches of individual photos, negatives or slides can take a couple of hours. A storage tote that's filled with photo albums can take a week (or several).
The turnaround time for VHS cassette digitization depends on the quantity of cassettes and the hours of footage that will be transferred.
Q: Do you sell USB drives as part of your service?
A: At the moment, no. Archival Memories does not provide or sell USB drives. To keep this service cost effective, all customers are expected to provide their own USB drive. A minimum storage capacity of 128 GB is recommended. Customers with a lot of photo albums might want to consider even more USB storage capacity, such as 256 GB or larger.