PhotoScan

FotoğrafTarama is a Sayısal Ofis service that converts printed photos, slides, and negative films into high-resolution digital format using professional scanners. It exists for situations where an amateur shot from a phone camera falls short — preserving old albums, box collections passed down across generations, and professional film negative archives.

Printed photo scanning covers old album photos, ID photos, large-format prints, and card photos, all digitized on flatbed high-DPI scanners. Color-accuracy calibration and standardized process steps ensure every page comes out at a consistent quality.

Slide scanning handles 35mm positive slides, common from the late 1960s through the early 1990s and often found in travel, wedding, and family archives. Dedicated slide scanners extract high-resolution digital images from this small format.

Negative scanning covers 35mm film negatives (the most common), 120mm medium format, and large-format film, captured on professional film scanners and automatically converted to positives in digital form. The color profile is calibrated to match the film's manufacturer — Kodak, Fuji, or Agfa.

Photos that have faded, yellowed, or shifted toward red over the years undergo digital color correction. A record of the original is kept, and a restored copy is delivered alongside it.

After scanning, an expert team retouches dust, fingerprints, and scratches from the digital images, with extra care taken for historical documents and family heirlooms.

Output is delivered in JPEG format for general use, sharing, and the web, or in TIFF format for high-quality archiving and professional printing. DPI options are 300, 600, or 1200 for photos and 2000 or 4000+ for slides and negatives. Files are organized into a categorized folder structure by date, event, or person, with an optional digital album available in PDF format.

The process starts with a quote based on material type — photo, slide, or negative — and quantity. Physical materials are then picked up by insured courier at an appraised value. Scanning is carried out on the appropriate equipment for each format, followed by processing that includes color correction, dust and scratch retouching, and categorized filing. Every image goes through quality control by an expert, and finally the originals are returned along with the delivered digital files, provided via USB drive, external disk, or a cloud link.

Customers include families preserving heirloom albums passed down across generations, professional photographers backing up their old negative archives, municipal and association archives digitizing historical photo collections, publishers and newspaper archives with pre-press negative collections, genealogy researchers building family trees, and museums and cultural institutions documenting their collections.

FotoğrafTarama is a service offered under the Sayısal Ofis umbrella. For detailed information and a free quote, you can reach out through fotograftarama.com and sayisalofis.com.