Film from Super 8 to 35mm. Video tape from VHS to MiniDV to Betamax. Photos, slides, and negatives. Everything you need digitized, processed by the same hands, shipped and returned as one package — with one handling fee per service line.
Skim the overview, click into the section that matches your collection. Mixed collections use all three and ship together.
Every common home-movie and professional film gauge. All scanned frame-by-frame on sprocketless transport — safe for damaged, shrunken, and brittle film that other services reject or damage.
Most common home-movie format from the late 1960s through the 1980s. Plastic cartridges or metal reels. Sound variants have a magnetic stripe along one edge; we capture audio in sync with the picture.
The predecessor to Super 8. Narrower image area, larger sprocket holes, smaller frame. Distinguishable by the smaller picture and larger sprockets. Common in family collections from the 1940s through the 1960s.
The bridge between home and professional use. Common for documentary, educational, news, and industrial film. Sound-on-film variants supported (both optical and magnetic). Reels up to 1,200 ft handled as single units.
Professional cinema gauge. We scan 35mm safety (acetate and polyester base) for archives, estates, and professional projects. Archival tier produces 4K DPX masters suitable for theatrical restoration. Nitrate-base 35mm not accepted — see below.
Damaged film welcome. Vinegar syndrome, shrinkage, brittle splices, warping, and color fade are all things we handle every week. Sprocketless transport means we don’t rely on sprocket holes to move film through the scanner — which is what damages fragile film in projector-based services. See the restoration page for the full damage-condition guide.
Consumer and semi-professional tape formats from the VHS era through Digital8. Broadcast and professional formats supported on inquiry. HD capture, basic color correction, and original tape returned.
The standard consumer video tape from 1976 through the 2000s. Includes full-size VHS, compact VHS-C (camcorder tapes, played in adapters), and higher-resolution S-VHS. All three handled with the same workflow.
The consumer camcorder formats from Sony, introduced 1985 — 1999. Small cassettes, handheld camcorders. Digital8 uses the same cassette but records digitally — significantly cleaner transfer. All three supported.
The late-consumer digital tape format. Small cassettes, native digital recording. Cleanest to transfer — our DV decks capture the bitstream directly with no generation loss. Often the best-preserved format we receive.
Specialist consumer (Betamax) and professional/broadcast (U-matic) formats. Requires dedicated decks that are increasingly scarce. We maintain working machines for both. Transfer quality often exceeds VHS due to higher source resolution.
European and international video standards. We convert correctly to NTSC without the field-interpolation artifacts common in consumer conversions. Handled at the specialty rate above.
Sticky shed & tape repair. Tapes showing sticky-shed symptoms (binder breakdown — squealing or shed residue), severe mold, or broken shells are quoted after intake inspection rather than via fixed surcharge. Each case varies; you receive a written assessment with specific pricing before any treatment begins.
Professional flatbed scanning exclusively — never feed scanners, never automated shoebox services. Every image individually handled, dust-removed, and color-corrected.
The everyday photo scan. 1200 DPI flatbed, compressed-air dust removal, automated color correction, organized digital files, JPEG (sRGB) delivery. Good for digitizing a collection you want to view, share, and back up.
For photos you want scanned once and never again. 2400 DPI, manual per-image color correction, manual dust and scratch repair, TIFF + JPEG with embedded EXIF metadata. The right choice for irreplaceable family photos.
Albums stay intact. We carefully remove and replace photos one at a time, or page-flat scan when photos are bonded to pages. Priced at the per-photo Standard or Preservation rate; album assessment included.
Dedicated film holder workflow at 2000 — 4000 DPI. Color correction applied, including recovery on faded Ektachrome (Kodachrome typically holds color well). Organized by slide tray order when tray order is meaningful.
Strip scanning at 2400 — 4000 DPI with color-managed inversion. Often produces higher quality than scanning the resulting print, because negatives preserve more dynamic range than paper prints do. Preservation tier recommended.
Large-format flatbed scanning for oversize prints, framed photos (removed from frames), posters, and certificates. Each project is quoted individually based on size, count, and condition.
If you have a drawer with Super 8 reels, a box of VHS tapes, and a stack of photos, you don’t need three separate orders. Everything ships together, gets processed by the same hands, and comes back in one return package. Each service line has its own handling fee — the workflows really are separate — but you save on shipping, vault subscription, and project management overhead.
Some formats require specialized facilities, licensing, or equipment we don't have. Rather than take on work we can't do well, we refer to the right people. If you have something on this list, here's where to send it.
Unsure what you have? Send a clear photo of your reel, tape, or container through our inquiry form. We’ll tell you the format, whether we handle it, and what the ballpark cost looks like — usually within one business day. Free, no commitment. Send an inquiry.
Depending on where you are in thinking about your collection, one of these is probably the right next step.
The FAQ has a full "Your film" section covering format identification, vinegar-syndrome diagnosis, mold, mystery reels, and what to do with inherited collections.
Go02 · You know what you have · want pricingEvery per-foot and per-tape rate, all add-ons, sample order totals for real-world scenarios including mixed-media orders. Nothing hidden.
Go03 · You want a quote for your specific collectionAdd film, VHS, and photos in one session. Live total. Mixed-format orders handled correctly with shared shipping and proper minimums per service line.
GoWhether you have six Super 8 reels in a shoebox or a full estate with five media types, we handle it end-to-end. Same hands, same quality commitment, same transparent pricing from quote through delivery.