[tags]backup, photo scanning, slide scanning, photos to cd, picture scanning, qoop, scandigital[/tags]

To go along with my other posts on keeping your digital pictures safe and backing up your books / documents, here’s another post on backing up - but with a twist.
This time it’s a service that offers to scan in and digitise your precious memories stored on old style film stock. They’ll take your memories from photographs, slides, negative and even from albums. Whom am I talking about, why Scan Digital.

Once they’ve received your pictures in whatever format you send, they will digitise them and return along with a CD / DVD of your pictures. Beyond this they will also create an online gallery just for you, so that you can automatically opt to share them with family and friends. Beyond this you, or anyone you let access the gallery can also order prints through a partnership they have with Qoop. Here’s a link to a page on their site that shows the process.
I haven’t personally used the service as I’m waiting on a response from them about international shipping. Though as soon as I find this out, or can find a similar priced service that offers international shipping then you can be sure I will be following it up. Not that I want the online gallery, though it will be a useful extra. Beyond the gallery and digitising to CD/DVD they also perform red eye removal; cropping and re-orientation along with colour correction.
Pricing, as far as these things go, appear to be reasonable but there again I don’t know of any other company offering this service so one cannot compare it. But what price would you place on your precious memories? Having already lost one set of digital pictures I’m not about to want to loose my non-digital pictures.

This has been a paid for post for ScanDigital.