Comments on: Review: ScanCafe Film Scanning Service

By: Michael W. Gray

Michael W. Gray — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:17:23 +0000

Sorry to hear about the issues. Did you catch this at the time you got the previews online and address it with ScanCafe at that time before completing your order?

By: Mark Nyman

Mark Nyman — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:07:38 +0000

ScanCafe did an amazingly bad scan job.
Out of focus, poor exposure, stretched in one axis.
But worst of all, my slides came back scrambled out of order,
which has taken many hours to repair

By: Gina

Gina — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:45:49 +0000

Great review. I have used scancafe twice. Once to scan APS
images, once for scanning my actual pictures. My first APS order
was just 4 cartridges of 25 pictures each. One roll wouldn’t open
in their machine, and they refused to open it manually. So that
bummed me out, but the other 3 rolls looked great. I’m in the
process of having my actual, older photos scanned. They’re overseas
and in queue to be scanned. Can’t wait to see how they
look!

By: Randy Rager

Randy Rager — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:56:22 +0000

“Exploiting third world labour”? Really? What evidence do you have that they are not being paid a wage fair to their local cost of living?

As for carbon footprint, well, if you believe that atmospheric carbon is a greenhouse gas then you’ll believe ANYTHING.

By: D. F. Worthington

D. F. Worthington — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:41:51 +0000

@Jeff Werner I guess we could not send the negatives to India and put those people out of work altogether. Carbon footprint? Moron.

By: Mike McCarthy

Mike McCarthy — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:50:43 +0000

Great write up on a consumer focused provider of scanning services. As a commercial outsourcing company, we are always looking for reputable scanning companies to refer consumer business to. ScanCafe looks like they fit the bill.

By: Jeff Werner

Jeff Werner — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:49:53 +0000

As scary as handing your negatives overseas are the ethical concerns of 1) exploiting third world labour and 2) the carbon footprint of the shipping. It’s all about what you feel the true costs are.

By: Jarvie

Jarvie — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:49:08 +0000

That was a thorough and insightful commentary on ScanCafe … I still need to get all my old negatives together one day and this might just motivate me.
Thanks