Generations of Family Photos are Going Digital Super-fast at ScanMyPhotos.com

Thousands of neglected motion pictures need to be preserved, but billions of photo snapshots must be saved too, according to ScanMyPhotos.com.

Irvine, CA (PRWEB) May 24, 2007 -- Because there is an urgent need to save motion pictures at risk of being lost forever, famous entertainment industry leaders are calling to preserve neglected movies, but, there is an equal demand to save another type of picture -- generations of family photos.

"While there are thousands of movies that must be saved, there are billions of snapshots spanning decades that must immediately be restored and preserved," according to ScanMyPhotos.com. The Irvine, Calif.-based photo imaging company claims to have already preserved millions of pictures -- representing shoeboxes of family photos that span generations from across the nation.

Unlike the formidable challenge, cost and time to restore a single motion picture, hundreds of individual snapshots are easily scanned in minutes and digitally preserved. While it can take years to restore a single movie, ScanMyPhotos.com uses the award-winning KODAK i660 Series Scanner and KODAK Capture Software to easily protect photo memories as vibrant digital files. The company also turns the preserved pictures into photo memory albums and can magically enhance each picture to help fix faded and discolored snapshots -- especially those old analog Polaroid pictures.

How it works:

Shoeboxes from across the nation are mailed each day to ScanMyPhotos.com which provides same-day service for transforming up to one-thousand 3 1⁄2 x 5" - 11x14" pictures in minutes onto digital files for just $49.95. This innovative scanning service also features a "fill-the-box" prepaid program for scanning more than 1,600 4x6" photos for just $124.95. (Special, buy two prepaid boxes and the third is free).

ScanMyPhotos.com, a division of 30 Minute Photos Etc., which was founded in 1990 as a traditional retail photo lab, built this new business model to accommodate the growing need to preserve pictures. Reader's Digest (page-197) and Women's Health (page-56) magazines both are profiling ScanMyPhotos.com in their June issues and other feature profiles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal (Jan 31, page-one, Personal Finance) and USA Today (Mar 8, page-three, Money).

Mitch Goldstone, president and CEO of ScanMyPhotos.com, explained that the company "regularly augments its traditional photo, slide and negative scanning with new products, like, custom Photo Soap sfor every picture [Perfectly Clear Software. We also recently added new robotic accuracy for manufacturing the custom DVD discs [Microtech." Goldstone explained that ScanMyPhotos.com uses KODAK imaging technologies to help easily scan hundreds of pictures in minutes (750 photos are scanned in five minutes).

ScanMyPhotos.com digitally preserves photo memories and is a division of 30 Minute Photos Etc. which was founded in 1990 by Mitch Goldstone and Carl Berman who operate a retail and ecommerce business for servicing consumer, amateur and professional photographers nationwide with Kodak-quality photographic imaging, custom photo restorations and Lucidiom in-store electronic scrapbooking photo kiosks.

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