Slides Scanning Information and Reviews
Should I do it myself or find a service to scan my slides?

Compare Slide/Negative/Photo Scanning Services - ScanCafe The Winner

If you compare quality and price offered by existing scanning services, the clear winner is ScanCafe. While other services have similar offerings as ScanCafe, few can compete with such low prices and the option to discard up 50% of your images scanned.

Here are a few favorable ScanCafe reviews written by reputable sources - see what they had to say about ScanCafe's services. Or even better, ScanCafe has no minimum order quantity, so send in some old slides and see for yourself first-hand.


Scanning Services Price Comparison Chart

  Negatives
3000 dpi
Slides
3000 dpi
Prints
600 dpi
DVD/CD Minimum
Order Size
Discard
images
$0.39 $0.49 $0.89 $6/$6 $30 NO
* $0.69 $0.69 $0.59 $10/$10 $50 NO
$0.64 $0.69 $0.59 $6/$6 $30 NO
** $0.59 $0.59 N/A $4.99/$4.99 None NO
ScanCafe slide scanning service $0.19 $0.24 $0.27 Free None Up to 50%
** $0.58 $0.68 $0.68 Free None NO

*  Slides and negatives scanned at a lower resolution of 2500 ppi
** Slides and negatives scanned at a lower resolution of 2000 ppi/dpi

Prices current as of February 2008

For the purposes of the above chart the terms "dpi" and "ppi" are used interchangeably to help quantify the quality of scan being performed.