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"This is absolutely mind-blowing quality stuff. I thought some of these were essentially unsalvageable."
Dan
Elk Grove, CA
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Preserve Old Photos to Last Generations
Time is cruel to family photos and films. Convert decaying images to digital format to keep the memories alive.
December 2006
By Jeff Bertolucci
(The following is an excerpt. To read the entire article, click this link http://www.kiplinger.com/retirementreport/features/archives/2006/12/
Cover_Dec2006_01_01.html)
Going Professional
Even with the best equipment, digitizing photos and videos is a lot of work, especially if you’re scanning hundreds of images. It may take several minutes to scan, examine and save each photo. With film, you’ll need to scan each frame.
A smart, albeit pricier, alternative is to hire a professional service. Just ask Janice Hayes, 60, a retired judge in Sacramento, Cal. Hayes has hundreds of family photos, slides and films dating back to the 1920s. She first tried scanning the photos at home, but “each scan took several minutes,” she says.
While researching professional scanning services on the Internet, Hayes discovered Digital Pickle, a San Francisco–based company that digitizes photos, films and videos (www.digitalpickle.com; 866-313-8386). Unsure whether to trust Digital Pickle with her family’s photographical history, Hayes drove 90 miles to tour the company facility and was impressed. She dropped off her celluloid collection, and in a few days she received digitized copies stored on a 100-gigabyte hard drive and a stack of DVDs.
Although the service cost her “many thousands of dollars,” Hayes is very pleased with the results. “We’ve always been a close family, and these were decades of cherished memories,” she says.
To digitize home movies, use a professional service. There’s a good chance you don’t even remember what’s on those old reels. In that case, Digital Pickle will digitize a small amount of film and e-mail it to a client. “They look at the beginning of the film to see what’s on it,” says Digital Pickle president Arik Paran. A 400-foot 8mm or 16mm reel costs as much as $180 to transfer, according to its Web site.
All contents © 2007 The Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc.
For more information, visit http://www.digitalpickle.com.
Please Contact:
Arik Paran
(415) 861-4565
arik@digitalpickle.com
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