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Easter Special

Convert negatives to digital with a free storage device!

Free storage device Easter brings family together. So do your cherished memories. Convert negatives to digital today and preserve them forever. Enjoy your converted photos and films with family and friends on your PC or TV.

We've got a gift for you! Take advantage of our special offer and get a free storage device for your scanned negatives. The promotion is valid until 28/04/2025.

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Negative Scanning: Price List

Price per negative up to 500 negatives	30p
501-1.500 negatives	24p
1.501-2.500 negatives	21p
from 2.501 negatives	17p
All prices include legal VAT. Shipping costs will be added. Take notice of our promotion terms here.

Scan negatives:
Your benefits

Best price guarantee
Quality guarantee
Proven customer satisfaction
All slide formats and magazine types
Professional image inversion
All formats and film types
Negative scans with up to 6,200 dpi
Negatives to DVD, USB drive or as a digital download

Perfect service, I couldn’t wish for more

How we scan negatives to digital

Negative Scanning

We scan your negatives:

in high quality for easy viewing on PC, TV and smartphone.
on a storage medium of your choice or as a direct download.
with the greatest possible care and GDPR-compliant.

Storage

Choose how you would like to receive your digitised negatives back:

on a USB stick or hard disk, for viewing on the computer
as download link, accessible with multiple devices
or on DVD, for viewing on TV

If you want, we’ll make additional copies for your friends and relatives.

Delivery

Send your negatives to our MEDIAFIX Logistics Centre.

After we’ve converted your negatives to digital, you’ll get them back on your preferred storage medium or as a direct download. We’ll send your original and digitised negatives back to you by post.

Digitise negatives at the highest quality

Standard+

Digitised negative in Standard+ quality

The Standard+ quality has an outstanding resolution of 4,250 dpi. When zooming into the image, you can see tiny details like lettering or the individual branches of a tree in the background. Prints up to A3 format as well as displays on 4K monitors are possible without any problems.

Premium

Digitised negative in Premium quality

With its 5,000 dpi, the Premium quality meets the high demands of professional photographers. The results impress with sharper images and improved colour reproduction. They allow prints up to A2 format as well as a very good display on 4K monitors.

High-end

Digitised negative in High-end quality

Do you want to scan negatives at the highest possible quality? Then choose the High-end quality. With its resolution of 6.200 dpi and a density range of 4.5, you will get a high colour fidelity as well as a very high dynamic range. With this quality level, you can print your pictures up to A1 format.

Get even more out of your negatives

A negative is an image in which the colours and brightness are reversed: light areas appear dark and dark areas appear light. If you want to scan your negatives and obtain the correct colours and brightness, you need to convert the negative into a positive. This conversion is known as inversion. Negative strips also have a typical orange-brown colour. Our standard inversion improves the colours and is included in the digitisation process. For very old and pale-coloured negatives, however, we recommend our premium inversion with the following advantages:

Higher detail accuracy: By storing more extensive image information, the premium inversion effectively corrects the typical orange mask in negatives.
Colour optimisation: Colour casts und discolouration are eliminated, providing better results compared to conventional post-processing methods.
Revitalisation of faded tones: Faded colours are restored, leading to great results, especially for old negatives.

The images below show negatives in three stages: first, directly after scanning (without inversion), then with standard inversion, and finally with our premium inversion.

We colourise your black-and-white negatives

We colourise your black-and-white negatives, using a specialised AI for colourisation. Discover the main advantages of this innovative technology:

A big surprise for family and friends: your black-and-white negatives are colourised with a powerful AI tool. Your family will be surprised to see their ancestors in colour.
Before and after comparison: You receive both the original black-and-white photos and the colourised scans, so you can see the difference for yourself.
We keep the analogue negatives as they are: Your negatives remain intact in their analogue form. Only the digitised images are copied and colourised.

Convert negatives to digital without annoying dust

Our professional dry cleaning removes dust from your negatives. We recommend to book it to improve the end result. Here are the main benefits:

Dust reduction: our professional cleaning service significantly reduces dust on your negatives.
Cleaner digital images: You no longer have to worry about annoying dirt on the digitised photos.
Easier post-processing: By reducing dust and dirt, you will spend less time editing and improving your photos afterwards.

Convert negatives to digital: it's that easy!

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We scan your negatives just the way you want them. Choose your preferred quality level and submit your request.

Send us your negatives

Pack the negatives in a sturdy cardboard box and send them to us from a post office of your choice.

Enjoy!

You get your negatives back in 2-4 weeks. Now you can look back on your precious memories anytime.

Converting negatives to digital with MEDIAFIX

Two and a half minutes for each and every scan — that’s how long it takes to scan negatives by yourself. What’s more, you’ll need an expensive scanner if you want high quality. Save your time and money: MEDIAFIX is the market leader for digitising negatives, starting at 17p per negative with a best price guarantee.

Negative scanning service with best price guarantee

It pays off to digitise negatives with MEDIAFIX. From only 17p per negative, and with a best price guarantee, your precious memories will be preserved in outstanding quality.

Feel free to compare our prices with our providers and see for yourself: MEDIAFIX offers the optimal negative scanning service, as we have our own in-house advanced technologies.

Our price for transferring your negatives to digital includes:

Negative scanning in 4,250 dpi: We convert negatives to digital with a resolution of at least 4,250 dpi
Automatic tone curve correction: For better colour reproduction, our negative scans include automatic tone curve correction. This is designed to specifically target the orange colour cast of negatives.
Saving as JPEG: We convert negatives to pictures and save them as JPEGs, so you can view your digitised slides on any device — for example, your computer, tablet or smartphone.

For an average order of 1,000 negatives in Standard+ quality with a resolution of 4,250 dpi, storage on a USB drive and optional image rotation, MEDIAFIX charges 24p per negative. Our competitors are often significantly more expensive.

Further advantages for converting negatives to digital with MEDIAFIX

Convert your negatives to digital with the market leader
Personal advice by phone or e-mail
We scan all negatives format and film types
Perfect colours by Premium-inversion via raw data
Negatives to USB, DVD or as a digital download

Film negative scanning – overview of your benefits:

Price-performance:	Best price guarantee
Quality:	Quality commitments
Advice:	By phone or e-mail
Delivery:	By post
Formats:	All types of formats and films
Storage:	Negatives to DVD, USB drive or as digital download

Convert negatives to digital now!

Why you shouldn't hesitate: scan negatives before it’s too late

Do you still have old negatives of special moments with your family? Birthdays, holidays and other occasions used to be captured on negatives and later developed. But paper photos are often lost, damaged, or start to fade. You may still have the negatives, but they won’t last forever! In fact, negatives start to show signs of age after only 20 years*. Scanning your negatives is the best way to save them.

*Source: Wilhelm, Henry (1993): The Permanence and Care of Color Photographs

Why you should convert negatives to digital:

Fading colours: The first sign of age. Saturation and brilliance start to lessen.
Color casts: The material starts to decay with time, leading to colour casts — when colours start to shift in another direction.
No optimal storage conditions: Negatives should be stored in a relatively cool environment. This is often hard to achieve, meaning your negatives fade faster.
Wrinkles and scratches: When viewing or restoring your negatives, they can easily get damaged.

Viewing negatives as they are isn’t much fun. The image is too small and you can’t see the real colours. That’s why they just get stored away for years.

When restoring negatives with our negative scanning service, you receive the inverted image back, opening up a world of possibilities:

Share your digitised negatives with friends and family around the world.
Easily enjoy your scans on TV, tablet or projector.
Create as many duplicates and backups as you want.
Archive the memories of you and your loved ones safely and reliably.
Print your pictures and create photo gifts for your loved ones.

Choose MEDIAFIX to digitise negatives and preserve your memories with exceptional quality and reliability. Any questions? Please feel free to contact us!

Scan your negatives now!

FAQ for converting negatives to digital images

How much does it cost to digitise film negatives with MEDIAFIX?

MEDIAFIX digitises your negatives starting at 17p per photo. With our best price guarantee we promise that you’ll always get the lowest price for your desired resolution and quantity.

How can I send my negatives?

You can send your negatives by post to the following address:

MEDIAFIX Logistics Centre
AMCO Park, Acanthus Road
Redditch
Worcestershire
B98 9EX

Does it even make sense to have old negatives scanned?

Yes, indeed, the older your negatives are, the more it makes sense to scan them before it’s too late! With our additional services such as dry cleaning or Premium-inversion using raw data, you can obtain excellent results.

In which file format will my digitised negatives be saved?

By default, we save your digitised negatives in JPEG format. For special requirements, we can also store them in TIFF format.

In what resolution will my negatives be scanned?

Depending on your desired quality level, we can scan your negatives in 4,250, 5,000 or 6,200 dpi.

Do I get back a digital negative or an inverted negative?

You will get back your negatives inverted.

How should I package my negatives?

Envelopes or sleeves are the most suitable packaging.

Is it better to scan negatives or photos?

In most cases, it’s better to scan the negative because we can achieve a higher resolution in the resulting image.

Should I remove the paper strips from the negatives?

No! We’ll take care of that in the scanning process.

Should I clean my negatives before scanning?

We absolutely recommend a cleaning. You can either do this yourself or let us do it professionally for a little extra charge.

Is it possible to only scan selected negatives?

No, MEDIAFIX will scan all the negatives on a strip.

Which negative formats can MEDIAFIX scan?

We scan image media of all types. Just start a request and we’ll find the best solution. You can find the most common formats in the overview:

Negative format	Properties	Price per negative
35mm (24×36 mm)	the most common negative format	starting at 17p
Medium-format (4×4 to 6x9cm)	more sharpness and higher resolution than the 35mm format still popular today among professional photographers	starting at 84p
Large-format (9×12 to 20x30cm)	excellent image quality only for highly specialised purposes, for example architecture	starting at £2.49
Minox & pocket format (11×18 17x13mm)	exotic formats image quality is generally low	starting at 45p
Half-format (24×18 24x24mm)	same film type as 35mm format exposed in the classic silent film format 18x24mm extended by AGFA to 24x24mm	starting at 33p
Instamatic (28x28mm)	easier to insert into the camera very popular due to its square format	starting at 45p
APS film (16.7×30.2mm)	stands for Advanced Photo System has a film status indicator to avoid double exposures	starting at 25p

How does digitising negatives with MEDIAFIX work?

Digitising negatives with MEDIAFIX is easy: Just call us on our phone number 020 3904438-0 or start an online request with our contact form. Add the signed order form to the package.

IMPORTANT: Without the signed order form we can’t process your order! You can send us your package by post. When your order is finished, we will of course return your negatives.

Can you scan undeveloped negatives?

We do not digitise undeveloped negatives. You can develop your films at photography shops. Once your negatives are developed, we can digitise them.

Still got questions about negative scanning?

For free individual advice, just call us or start your non-binding online request using the contact form. You can reach us by phone from Monday to Friday from 09.00 a.m. - 4.30 p.m. at our phone number 020 3904438-0.

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