Scans can be made from any type of original, colour or B/W, negative or transparency, from 35mm up to 10” x 8” film. This includes more obscure formats, such as Hasselblad X-Pan. Pricing varies with size (MB), bit depth (8/16), and quantity, and includes supplying the scans on CD-ROM.

We are a small specialist business and our service is highly personal. Quite simply, we aim at the best quality scan we can get from your image, and will spend some time doing so. As photographers ourselves producing limited edition Giclée prints for other photographers, we understand digital printing on inkjets, and how important it is to minimise image degradation, and optimise colour reproduction at every stage. This particularly applies to the image origination or scanning stage.

If you will be editing before printing, the origination of the digital file is best done with scan settings optimised for fine art printing. This means not applying unsharp masking, setting highlight and shadow points appropriately for the particular print process, and outputting in a suitable colour space. A range of image processing techniques during the scan, such as noise and colour cast removal or tonal adjustment, is also available.

Our high quality, professional virtual drum scanner is designed to retain as much as possible of the original image information by simulating a drum surface curve. There is no glass or mirror surface between the light source and charge-coupled device recording the scan, and hence your original is not coated with oil to adhere it to a drum surface, as is common drum scanner practice. Apochromatic correction to the lens minimises chromatic aberration, a common cause of colour error. The scanner is also calibrated and profiled with our own spectrophotometer in order to maintain a colour-managed workflow that gets the best from your images.

The most important parameter in digital imaging is pixel quality, not the bare resolution often misleadingly quoted by manufacturers. With a true optical resolution of 3200 pixels per inch (meaning one sensor site per pixel), we guarantee better quality and lower image noise than other popular consumer scanners claiming 4000 and 5400 ppi. Some of these scanners achieve misleadingly high resolution figures by interpolating values. It is also common practice to misleadingly quote a potential dynamic range for the analogue to digital converter, as if this is the actual dynamic range achieved.

Contact us to arrange your scans.