Your Photos Say More Than You Think
Mitch Goldstone, runs 30 Minute Photos Etc. in Irvine, CA and offers a very successful a nationwide photo scanning service (ScanMyPhotos.com). He scans around 100,000 photos a day and it keeps growing (coverage from USA TODAY and The Wall Street Journal aren’t hurting business).
Shifting though millions of pictures Goldstone and his staff have noticed a few trends some scarier than others.
They regularly find photos in orders that are filthy, covered with a chemical residual so thick that they had to stop the scanning process to clean the scanner. What is it? Tobacco. They deduced that photos coming from the homes of smokers were regularly stained from nicotine.
“If this is what is happening to pictures, imaging people’s lungs.” Goldstone says. “The best solution, other than not smoking is to make sure pictures are sealed in boxes or other protective materials.”
As for the most common places people are posed in the pictures they scan:
1) Las Vegas
2) The World Trade Center
3) Disneyland and Disneyworld
—Kathleen Davis
Disgusting!!!
Posted by: Dylan Devine | April 19, 2007 at 01:27 PM
Just what I was looking for. What a great way to inexpensively scan my shoeboxes of pictures. Will this work with iMovie? Went to the site and ordered the fill the box service from Scanmyphotos.com. The box holds nearly 2000 4x6 pictures for under one hundred dollars.
Posted by: carolyn | April 21, 2007 at 08:13 PM
This was a much appreciated posting and I rarely engage in purchasing from product reviews, but I had many, many pictures.
Thanks for the tip on Scanmyphotos.com
The company mailed my prepaid box and I received it the next day! Filled it with more than 1800 pictures. 1800 pictures - including Polaroids too.
My box was mailed on Tuesday and.... I received the entire order with all my newly digital files on Thursday!!! The cost.
$99.95.
I remember when it took at long just to have my film developed.
SH
Posted by: Stanley | June 29, 2007 at 09:43 AM
There photo scan quality is terrible. Since there scanner only scans at 300dpi people in my photos with black hair appeared to be wearing wigs. And the skin tones looked orange in color. I had to have them all rescanned at 600dpi by ArizonaScanning.com
MT
Posted by: MT | November 02, 2007 at 06:52 PM
Surprised to read the one comment. We've been using them for nearly a year and they scanned more than 40,000 of our archived photos for our publications. Not an issue. Interesting that the flammer then mentioned a competitor. And, can't beat their price $50 for a 1000 pix. I've used the prepaid boxes (get one free when you buy two, that means about 5000 pictures for $200).
Posted by: Frank | December 31, 2007 at 09:49 AM
I used www.scantodigital.com to scan about 500 of my mom's photos. I tried to do this myself and did not have the time or the patience. Cost $60.00 and they had them done in 4 days. Pretty sweet.
Dave
Posted by: David | November 28, 2008 at 04:03 PM