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Have slides, negatives, photos +amp; Co. digitized!

Whether for the archive or the family tree, we at Foto Koch digitize your treasures from the past! Highest resolution quality for saving down to the smallest detail. With our digitization service you save a lot of time, because digitizing slides, old photos or negatives not only costs time, but also some costs, depending on what you want to digitize, you need expensive equipment.

We take care of all that for you! So you don't have to worry about the treasures of days gone by.

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Have negatives digitized

Save your pictures / slides from decay today!

Slides, negatives, videos, cine film and the like lose the first detailed information after just 20 years, resulting in the deterioration of your memories / snapshots.

The consequences of not digitizing your slides +amp; negatives

  • Framed slides accumulate dirt and become dull over time

  • The films, negatives and co. can develop a color cast

  • Under poor storage conditions, films, slides +amp; Co. can also develop mold or be irretrievably destroyed
  • Over time, the images lose color and fade

New life for old treasures

Slides +amp; negatives not only take up a lot of space, they are also not particularly practical. Let us show you why it makes sense to digitize your photos +amp; snapshots:

  • Create backup copies as much as your heart desires!

  • Take slides anywhere +amp; spread around the world, share the memories with your family, no matter where!
  • Image editing is possible!
  • Have photos reprinted and give great photo gifts as presents
  • A new look for your masterpieces: Printed on aluminum dibond or as a canvas?
  • Easier +amp;+amp; faster sorting by: Year, place, people, or similar.
  • Gain storage space / space
Have slides digitized

Your advantages of the digitization service at Foto Koch

  • Digitization with up to up to 5100 dpi
  • Multiple scans for a higher dynamic range of each image
  • Mehrstufige Bildoptimierung
  • TÜV Rheinland certified products
  • transparent costs

Optional features

  • Dry cleaning
  • Slide sorting
  • Alignment +amp; orientation
  • Slide re-sorting in magazine or rail
  • Storage in TIFF format
  • Manual intensive cleaning / wet cleaning
  • DIA re-framing (plastic frame)

Digitize your slides now
Eco quality:
3,000 ppi/dpi corresponds to 3264 x 4928 pixels per image
Premium quality:
4.500 ppi/dpi corresponds to 4020 x 6036 pixels per image
Professional quality:
5.100 ppi/dpi corresponds to 4912 x 7360 pixels per image

The Eco quality is suitable for customers who want to act cost-optimized and keep the corresponding costs for digitization to a minimum. Here you need to deliver the slides in the correct slide trays. We do not check the page accuracy or the orientation of the photos here, but

the Premium quality is a more comprehensive service package as well as a higher resolution of 4500ppi/dpi. The following services are included in this service package:

  • Multiple scans
  • Edge trimming
  • multi-stage image optimization

The Premium Plus Quality package includes some additional services that are not included in the normal Premium Quality service:

  • Cleaning
  • Page straightening
  • Orientation
  • Compliance with the exact order
The Professional Quality has the highest resolution of all packages with 5100ppi/dpi, including a comprehensive range of services. The particular advantage of this package is that files are delivered in TIFF quality instead of JPEG. Please bear in mind that images in TIFF format require a large amount of data.

With slide magazines / slide trays you can deliver in the typical magazine types, these are e.g:

  • Unviersal magazines
  • CS or
  • LKM magazines
It is not necessary for the slides to be re-sorted. We can use your slides with a slide projector as with the last presentation. Only the check whether the slides are dust-free .

35mm slidesStandard 35mm slides

we support the following sizes:

  • 24x36mm
  • with 5x5cm plastic or cardboard frame

Special slide formats

  • Minox format 8x11mm
  • Instamatic 28x28mm
  • Pocket 13x17mm
  • Half format 24x24mm
  • Half format 40x40mm

Slide medium formats

  • 6x4,5cm framed
  • 6x6cm framed

Large format slidesThe

large format slides category includes all slide formats from 6x7cm to A4. The large format slides are either unframed or in glued glass frames.

The following magazine types are not supported and must be sorted manually, which results in a sorting surcharge:

  • BRAUN Paximat
  • KODAK round magazines
  • Leica round magazines
  • Bulk magazines
  • Slide archive boxes
  • Slides without magazine / loose slides
  • and much more.

If we receive archive folders from you, a sorting surcharge will apply.

As you have come to expect from us, we process orders in the shortest possible time. For example, digitization is completed within 7-14 working days.

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