Important Information
Creative Mode no longer offers this service.
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Slide Scanning Overview
Our Slide Scanning Service can digitise your cherished 35mm slides and transfer them to CD or DVD. Digital photos from 35mm slide scans are ready to print, email and share.
Slide Scanning Requirements
- Colour or black & white
- 35mm slides in 51×51mm (2"×2") mounts
- Card or plastic mounts
Slides may have superficial damage such as dust, scratches, fingerprints etc. but otherwise must be free of major physical damage and mildew.
Slide Scanning Results
A 35mm slide scanned at 4000ppi produces an image of approximately 5670×3780 pixels. This is equivalent to taking the same picture today with a 21 mega-pixel digital camera and can produce prints up to 18.9"×12.6" (A3) when printed at 300dpi.
Slide Scan Examples
These are high resolution scans from 35mm slides with cropping, colour correction and digital ICE. These photographs were taken in 1967 and were badly faded but still produced great looking digital pictures.
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Click for full size image (~3mb) or right-click and "save target as" to download and print. Please note your browser might automatically resize the image which reduces quality, view at 100% scale if possible.
Recommended Scan Options
Manual Cropping
Normally a thin black border will appear on slide scans, this is the silhouette of the mount. This unsightly border can be removed by cropping. We manually crop each frame to include as much of the original image as possible. Automatic cropping offered by our competitors uses a "one size fits all" approach that can crop important details or leave black borders.
Colour Correction
Even carefully stored slides are susceptible to discolouration and fading over time which often appears as a blue or purple tint across the entire image. Colour correction is a semi-automatic process that takes place in the scanner hardware to restore faded and shifted colours. We manually process and check each image to ensure the best possible scan results.
Digital Cleaning
Digital Cleaning is the process of removing unsightly dust, scratches, fingerprints and other minor imperfections from scanned images. This process does not affect your original films or prints in any way.
Our Digital Cleaning option now includes:
- Digital ICE automatic dust and scratch removal
- Manual retouching
- Red eye removal
