Author Archive | Lorelei

There are several ways to organize photos on a computer. Rename your photos by name, date, or event; place your photos in files that have a title that you will remember; or make a contact sheet of every photo you take and where it is. There is yet another quite simple way to ‘tag’ a […]

We are often asked to digitize customer’s photos, film and video tape directly to their hard drives. This can be done on request. However, is converting your media to digital files really protecting them on a Hard Drive? We continue to read what professionals recommend and we keep coming up with “the DVD”. If you […]

Really! I have been taking photos since the 1970s and I don’t recall ever traumatizing anyone in the process. This past year I managed to upset a large dog and a very small child. I was visiting friends in Canada and admired their beautiful dog. It was a nice sunny day so I called him […]

We have been scanning a lot of old family and business documents this past year. Old documents come in with some interesting binding techniques. I wonder when the paper clip was invented because these old papers that come in use a variety of methods to keep them together. Many people used straight pins, they actually […]

This scanning project took a couple of months, every week we scanned about 4 photo albums and burned them to a DVD disc. In the end all of these photos were digitized on only about 8 discs and placed in one small secure binder. What a great gift for the family. Now everyone will have […]

Just to do a reality check I decided to go online and pick the first photo scanning company that came up to compare their pricing to ours. At first glance, they were quite a bit lower than us, however when I selected all the options that we include in our pricing, on a 500 photo […]

When you take photos from your cell phone camera they are digital. Hopefully you burn these treasures onto a DVD every once in awhile or after a very special event. This way, when the computer crashes, you have a back up. There is a great way of getting very inexpensive prints from your phone photos, […]

There are several types of scanners available to scan your slides. The best seems to be the Nixon Coolscan however Kodak stopped making them several years ago. The Epson scanners work very well and vary in price. We suggest that if you are purchasing a scanner for slides or negatives that you look for products […]

As I scan family albums and stacks of old photos I think about how awesome it is that these memories have been saved. I think about how much fun this generation and future ones will enjoy seeing the faces of their families. The stories that are captured by looking at our old photos are preserved. […]

Scanning slides can be quite involved depending on the format that you have and your scanner. First of all most scanners are set up to scan 35mm slides. These are rectangular negatives mounted in a 2×2 inch cardboard or plastic mount. The old instamatic cameras were often 126 mm, these are a square positive mounted […]