Professional digitisation service for your business archive

Photo scanning of your legacy photographic media when volume, scale and meta data management matter to you

Why organisations choose us

Vintage Photo Lab works with councils, publishers, heritage brands, creative agencies, family offices and other businesses to digitise large, complex or valuable archives. From prints to negatives, slides, other paperwork and Cine film, we provide a secure, structured and professional service to transform your archive into something immediately accessible preserving it for the future of your organisation.

Metadata integrity

Each digitised image is paired with accurate, detailed metadata, ensuring every record is searchable, traceable, and remains valuable for years to come

Uniform quality

All images are digitised in line with The National Archive recommended standards and guidelines, unless specified. RAW, TIFF, JPEG2000 and JPEG format available

Technical excellence

Specialist equipment and expertise are used to produce high-resolution, true-to-original digital files, capturing the full detail and dynamic range of each original

Standards compliance

For regulatory requirements, using approved digital formats ensures compliance, demonstrates good governance, and makes it easier to justify value for funding

Remote access transformation

Upon completion, images can be accessed instantly by approved staff from any device, removing the need for staff travel to physical locations

Futureproof

Digital archiving protects against loss, degradation, and technological obsolescence, ensuring your collection remains secure and accessible for generations to come

What we digitise

  1. Print photographs:
    Any size, any shape, also referred to as 'loose photos'. Whether still in developer pouches, organised into envelopes or binders, or carefully filed in a filing cabinet, we will collect in situ.
  2. Slides:
    Most common are 35mm mounted transparencies, but we can process all types, shapes and sizes
  3. Photograph albums/ ledgers/ notebooks:
    Standard, non standard, varying dimensions and size. No matter the structure of the album or the spine design or binding, we have a method for capturing high quality page images, or cops of individual images
  4. Negatives:
    As with slides, 35mm is most common though we specialise in all formats including 116 & 616, 127, 828, 620, 120, 126, 110, APS and more.
  5. Cine film & tapes:
    We cater for all types of legacy film stock and reels whether audio only, motion picture, or motion picture with audio. We digitise VHS tapes and camcorder formats including VHS-C, Super-8, Hi-8, MiniDV. We also process standard cassette tapes and dictaphone cassettes.

Our business process

1. Discovery and proposal

Following your initial enquiry we will complete a brief fact-finding exercise to understand and define your requirements. This might be conducted in-person or via video call and will involve all relevant stakeholders from your organisation.

2. Collection, testing and approval

Following your initial enquiry we will complete a brief fact-finding exercise to understand and define your requirements. This might be conducted in-person or via video call and will involve all relevant stakeholders from your organisation.

3. Core operations and quality control

Following your initial enquiry we will complete a brief fact-finding exercise to understand and define your requirements. This might be conducted in-person or via video call and will involve all relevant stakeholders from your organisation.

4. Organisation and integration

Following your initial enquiry we will complete a brief fact-finding exercise to understand and define your requirements. This might be conducted in-person or via video call and will involve all relevant stakeholders from your organisation.

5. Digital delivery and return of originals

Following your initial enquiry we will complete a brief fact-finding exercise to understand and define your requirements. This might be conducted in-person or via video call and will involve all relevant stakeholders from your organisation.

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