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Purchase Pay Per Slide Service

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Pay Per Slide Service

Individual slides +

as low as 21¢ per slide ($20 Minimum)

Learn more about this pricing.

Additional Pricing Information

Your card will be charged a $20 minimum service fee when placing the order. Upon completion of the scanning of your slides, total order amount will be calculated and charged based on number of slides, optional services and selected return shipping option, minus the initial minimum service fee. If your order exceeds $20, you are fully credited this deposit when your order is completed. If you order total is less than $20, the balance is applied towards the processing service fee. Excluding applicable sales tax.

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Optional Add On Services

Elite Concierge Expert Service + $12.95 per order

Express Scanning + 10¢ per scan

Scanning in Order +7¢ per scan

Image Rotation + 10¢ per slide

Photo Index Book + $69.95 per 1,000 slides scanned

DVDs +$9.95 per DVD

Thumb Drive +$15.95 per 1,000 slides

Delivery Signature Confirmation + $14.95

Product Details

Do you have a small collection of slides to scan – or a really large collection that your family has saved for decades? Our flexible Pay-Per-Slide Service is perfect for you.

Pricing is as low as 21 cents per slide for 2,000 dpi (see our pricing chart below for more information). While you may send us slides in carousel, boxes, or sleeves, please read our guidelines for how to prepare your slides for scanning before you pack them up and ship them to us.The $20 deposit will be credited towards the final cost of the order.

All work is completed onsite at our facility in Irvine, California and handled with the greatest of care by trained professionals. We hand scan each slide and use special technology to ensure your slides are translated into the highest quality digital format possible.

Key Features for Slide Scanning

Digital ICE options available – learn more about the technology in this blog post
U.S. domestic orders only

Read photographer and author of 34 books and more than 2000 magazine articles about photography and digital imaging review of ScanMyPhotos slide scanning service.

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— Joe Farace (@joefarace) January 27, 2014

Since 1990, we have preserved millions of precious memories. Send us your slides today, and start enjoying them in digital format within a few short weeks!

Standard Scanning

Quantity	2000DPI	4000DPI
1 - 200	71¢	95¢
201 - 499	62¢	83¢
500 - 1499	49¢	67¢
1500 - 2899	37¢	54¢
2900 - 5799	34¢	41¢
5800 +	21¢	27¢

Premium Scanning - Includes Color & Density Correction

Quantity	2000DPI	4000DPI
1 - 200	89¢	$1.19
201 - 499	78¢	$1.04
500 - 1499	62¢	84¢
1500 - 2899	47¢	68¢
2900 - 5799	42¢	59¢
5800 +	27¢	40¢

File Size Information

Resolution	Uncompressed file size	JPEG file size	Pixel by pixel dimension	Megapixel equivalent
2000 DPI	18.4 MB	1-3 MB	2048 x 3140	6.4 MP
4000 DPI	66.5 MB	8-10 MB	3894 x 5971	23.3 MP

Megapixels vs. Maximum Print Size Chart

Resolution (MP)	Pixel Resolution	Print Size @ 300ppi	Print size @ 200ppi	Print size @ 150ppi
2000 DPI (6.4 MP)	2048 x 3140	6.8" x 10.5"	10.2" x 15.7"	13.6" x 20.9"
4000 DPI (23.3 MP)	3894 x 5971	13" x 19.9"	19.5" x 29.9"	26" x 39.8"

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. What is the difference between Standard and Premium Scanning?

Standard Scanning
Save money on our most popular slide 35mm hand scanning service, without color adjustments, 20% discount from the premium scanning. To reduce dust and service scratches, most slides are scanned using Kodak’s Digital ICE Technology.
Premium Scanning
Our professional technicians hand scan each slide and carefully adjust the images to achieve the optimum color and density, ensuring each image is at its best. To reduce dust and service scratches, most slides are scanned using Kodak’s Digital ICE Technology.

Q. What format are my 35mm slides scanned at?

All scanned slides are in a 24-bit JPEG format.

Q. What resolutions do you scan at?

We offer two different resolutions. Our standard service is 2,000 DPI, which is equivalent to a 6 megapixel file. We also offer 4,000 DPI scans, the equivalent of a 16 megapixel file, at a higher rate.

Q. How large of a print can I make from the scanned images?

We recommend up to an 8"x10" print from 2,000 DPI scans, however you can go larger, just be aware there may be some pixelization when printed larger. 4,000 DPI scans can produce clear 20"x30" poster sized prints.

Q. Can you scan unmounted 35mm slides?

Yes, as long as they are in strips of at least two frames long. We cannot scan individual unmounted slides.

Q. Can you scan 126mm or 110 slides?

We can scan 126mm mounted slides, however due to the fact that our scanners are calibrated for 35mm slides, some of the image will be cropped out. We can also scan mounted 110 slides, however we cannot zoom in on the image and a large black border will be on the scan.

Q. Where are my slides scanned?

In the USA!

All orders for 100% of everything we do, including the individual hand scanning of 35mm slides are carefully processed, digitized, and fulfilled at our Irvine, CA corporate headquarters and scanning lab operation.

Founded in 1990, ScanMyPhotos.com has digitized one-quarter billion images and never ships your precious photos overseas or off site to scan. We believe in supporting American jobs and our professional staff are the experts anyway. At no point do your slides get shipped out of the country or to any other facility for scanning.

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Before You Start

How it works

Place your order today and you will be charged our minimum fee as a deposit which will be credited back to you once the order is complete (if applicable).
Be sure to include a copy of your invoice with your order so we can match up your order to our system. If not included, it may cause delays as we try to figure out who the shipment belongs to. This step is ABSOLUTELY necessary when the return address on the shipment does not match our customer records, as when shipped from a UPS store, for example.
Once received, we will contact you notifying you of its arrival.
Upon completion, your credit card will be charged the appropriate shipping charges and any overage beyond the minimum fee.
Due to swift changes in technology, your shipment must be postmarked within 30 days of the purchase date. If postmarked after, the pricing for our services on the day it is postmarked will be in effect.

Important Notes

Our scanners are set up to scan standard 35mm slides. If we receive 126mm mounted slides, some of your image will be cropped off the top and bottom while some of the slide mount will be scanned on the right and left. Similarly, if we receive 110 mounted slides, your image will be smaller with a large black border on all sides. We cannot alter this. See the image below for diagrams showing the crop and an example of what the scan looks like.

Slides that are double mounted (see below) must be removed from metal mounts prior to submission for scanning. Any slide received still mounted in the metal bracket will not be scanned.