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I am looking for a place to have color slides and b&w negatives professionally scanned. I'm looking for the highest resolution (4,000 ppi). I have found a few places on-line (White Glove, ScanCafe) but most require you to mail them in (some to India) which makes me nervous. Has anyone had a particularly good experience (or bad experience) with any of the scanning services.

I would really appreciate a recommendation based on your experience.

Thanks!

Thanks for the recommendation, Steve. I've been looking to scan my slides as well and I really like what ScanCafe offers. I doubt I wold be using scans of my slides for stock, but then, who knows, if the quality is good enough, I could do that as well.

From my own experience scanning slides in dedicated film scanners (2100 and 3200 dpi):
- Unless you have very good lens and used low grain film, high-res scans return soft images with a lot of noise.
- You need a lot of time retouching images.
- I haven't tried uploading high res scans to micros nor Alamy, and I believe that they would mostly be rejected given the current standards
- It is nevertheless interesting to have your images scanned and they can be good to sell (I've sold some directly without any complaint.

I would send slides to a good company just to save the time and, in some cases, save precious moments that are registered in the slides.