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I have to admit I was scared.

You see, I’ve been to India, three times in fact, and I’ve seen the transportation system first hand. The chaos of Chennai airport, the insanity of city traffic, the “delivery” system of 2-cycle carts, trucks, and ox driven wagons. So, boxing up my dad’s 50 year old slides, irreplaceable images all, and sending them to ScanCafe to be shipped off to India, scanned and returned, worried me just a bit.

I wasn’t worried about quality. Our company has 2000 people working in India, and they are highly capable and very professional. No, I was simply worried I would never see my slides again. Sure, ScanCafe insures your images to the tune of $10K. That provides some comfort, but it won’t replace lost moments captured on film. I had read and heard good things about ScanCafe from Twipphoto and others, so I packed up about 200 images as a test and shipped them off.

I needn’t have worried. ScanCafe kept me apprised of my precious cargo every step of the way. The web site makes ordering a snap and has all the fancy web 2.0 features you would expect. Five weeks or so after I sent out my slides, my images were on line for my review and selection. I was very pleasantly surprised with the quality. I had sent a number of slides that were definitely a challenge, badly faded and color cast, and they were restored beautifully within the standard service that includes “up to three minutes” of manual corrections. I put an assortment of pictures in the gallery. not all of these were done by ScanCafe. You can tell the ones I did, they have dust and scratches ScanCafe also offers restoration services and a few of my images could have benefited from more retouching, but I opted to do it myself.

I was so thrilled with the service I immediately boxed up an additional 500 slides and sent them. No fear this time, just anticipation!

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