Why Scan? There are several reasons to consider scanning your slides, negatives and prints. First and foremost is the preservation of your images. Whether they are valuable business materials or family vacation photos, they are priceless to you. Therefore, you should do everything possible to protect them. After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast and destroyed literally millions of family memories, people realized they needed to do something to preserve their images. In addition, the advances in digital technology provide new ways for you to share your photos easily.
Why choose us? If you are shopping for the cheapest price on scanning services then we are most likely not your place. We offer quality scanning at reasonable prices. Unlike the numerous companies that have surfaced in recent years, we have extensive experience in dealing with images. Some companies got into scanning recently, just to make a quick buck. Others package and ship your priceless images overseas, taking advantage of the lower wages they can pay in places like India and Asia. They hire large numbers of minimum wage workers and sit them in front of a bank of scanners, with YOUR photos. All of our technicians have at least a decade of experience in digital scanning and have years of background in handling your photos, from the days of developing and printing film to today. We have also worked closely for years with many corporate and commercial clients, including Tulane and Loyola Universities, LSU and Tulane Medical Centers, the Louisiana Supreme Court, the Historic New Orleans Collection and many state and local government agencies. We have scanned everything from regular photographs and 35mm slides and negatives, to black and white 4x5 negatives from the 1920's and large glass lantern slides from the late 1800's. We know what it takes to properly handle your photos. We also provide a level of personal service that you won't find in larger companies. To us, your family photos from last year are every bit as important as historic images from the 19th century. So, when choosing who you want to trust your images to, don't base your decision on who has the fanciest website or the biggest clients. Choose someone who will treat your images as if they were their own.
Volume Archiving of Large Slide Collections One of our specialties is large volume slide scanning of personal and institutional 35mm slide collections. Whether your collection is 100, 1000, 10,000, or even 100,000 slides, we will work with you to customize the job to meet your needs. See our standard pricing below, or contact us by phone or email Robert for a custom quote on your specific project.
Pricing
At Moldaner's Camera and Imaging, we know that every job has unique requirements and expectations, and not every project can fit neatly into a basic pricing structure. If you are a government agency, educational institution, museum, or just a photographer with specific scanning needs above what our standard services offer, please contact us for a customized quote. We are experienced in dealing with large and complex projects.
If you are preparing to ship images to us, please contact us in advance for packaging recommendations and approximate turnaround time for your order.
Our Equipment
Slide Scanners For 35mm slides we use a Kodak HR500 Plus scanner. This unit can scan at high resolutions, creating scans up to 128Mb in size. The HR500 can scan as many as 300 slides an hour, which allows us to scan large quantities of slides at a reasonable cost. This is the same scanner that is used by many museums, educational institutions, libraries and US government agencies for archiving their vast collections of slides.
Negative Scanners For 35mm and medium format negatives we use a Nikon Coolscan 9000. This unit is the preferred scanner for most professional photographers because of its high resolution capabilities (up to 4000 ppi) and its ability to also scan medium format. We also use this scanner for small quantities of 35mm slides and for medium format slides. At times, we also use a Nikon Coolscan 5000, which has the same capabilities except medium format scanning.
Print Scanners If you need exhibition quality prints from your original photos, we use an Epson V750 Pro flatbed scanner. This unit has a high resolution dual lens optical scanning system for scans up to 9600 dpi. In addition, we also offer a low cost batch-scanning print service through our Kodak i1210S scanner.
Kodak HR500 Plus Scanner w/ AutoSlide Carousel
Nikon Coolscan 9000ED Film Scanner
Epson V750 Pro Scanner
Our Media
It wouldn't make sense to go through all the time and expense of archiving your images, if we didn't put them on archival media. That's why we use only Delkin Archival Gold CD's and DVD's. CD-R's are known to deteriorate quickly due to common environmental factors: ultraviolet light, heat, and humidity. Using the ANSI/PIMA IT9.27-1999 accelerated aging process to test the longevity of CD-R media, the Delkin Archival Gold CD-R's have been shown to safely store your images for more than 300 years. The DVD-R's are rated to more than 100 years.
Archival Gold CDs and DVDs
From Our Customers
Read what our clients have to say about our services.
"Moldaner's restored over thirty composites of Tulane Law Review staffs that date from the late 1920's to the 1970's. The individual photos in the originals were different sizes and in various stages of deterioration. After interviewing several companies, it was clear that Moldaner's attention to detail and sound work ethic were the components essential to preserving and vastly improving these priceless archives. They scanned hundreds of images, improved the quality, made them uniform, and created new composites. They also digitally preserved the images for archival purposes, as well as providing a DVD backup. They look fabulous! Moldaner's exceptional skills, work product, and fair pricing have made saving these pictures for posterity effortless for me. I can now rest assured that, in the event of an evacuation, these irreplaceable images are safe."
--Lynn Becnel, Manager, Editorial Services Tulane University Law School New Orleans, LA
"I have used Moldaner’s Camera and Imaging for a variety of services, including photograph enlargements, exhibit preparation, scanning projects involving 35mm slides, negatives, and variously-sized prints, and others. The quality of their work and level of professional service is excellent. Mr. Moldaner goes beyond the call of duty in that he is always willing to discuss your project, make suggestions on what would work best, and then perform the work in a timely manner. He aims to please. In the past, I would submit work orders or projects to other businesses that perform similar tasks, and cross my fingers that it would turn out right. When I go to Moldaner’s with a job, I have full confidence that things will turn out just as I want them. I feel like I am in good hands there."
--David Dressing, PhD Curator of Manuscripts and Image Archives The Latin American Library, Tulane University New Orleans, LA
