Los Angeles' Personalized Photo Scanning Service for Large Collections Across Southern California Since 2009: Prints, Slides, 35mm Negatives, Film & Photo Albums

Hollywood Photo Scanning digitizes large family photo collections and professional archives throughout Southern California at our scanning facility right here in Los Angeles. We scan loose photo prints, photo albums, 35mm slides and negatives, APS film, 110/126 film, medium- and large-format film, video and more. All photo scanning is performed locally in Los Angeles.

Perfect Safety & Privacy Record • All Photo Scanning Performed In-House in Los Angeles • Family Collections & Professional Archives
Over 5.9 Million Photos Scanned Since 2009!
68¢ per print at 600 DPI
up to 8.5" × 11"
Free secure download link included

Unlimited downloads for three months are included with all orders, so you can access and share your finished collection from anywhere. When your order is delivered exclusively by digital download and no images are transferred on physical media, there is no sales tax.

Slides and 35mm negatives start at 79¢ per frame at 3000 DPI.

600 DPI prints68¢
3000 DPI 35mm slides / negatives79¢
Album removal15¢
Album reinsertion15¢

A removable album photo scanned at 600 DPI is 98¢ total: 68¢ scanning + 15¢ removal + 15¢ reinsertion.
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Important Service Details:
$300 minimum order.

We specialize in large family photo collections and large professional archives. Our published per-item pricing reflects large-order volume discounts, and we do not typically scan collections under 500 photos or offer small-batch or while-you-wait scanning.

Current turnaround estimate: approximately 4 to 8 weeks.

Please discuss your collection with us before bringing it in. We will arrange the appropriate intake method for your project, which may include free local pickup and delivery for qualifying orders, shipping, or a scheduled direct drop-off appointment.

Please note: We digitize existing photo and film collections. We do not provide photo printing or develop or sell photographic film.

A Personal Introduction from the President, Tony LiVigni

Hi, and thank you for visiting our 1990's style website. We hope you are starting to feel nostalgic about your history already!

We at Hollywood Photo Scanning are really looking forward to helping you preserve your large photo collection. I thought you might like some information on our company since you are in the very important process of choosing a photo scanning service. If I can have a moment of your time, I'd like to tell you about our services and some of the advantages we offer over other scanning services.

Hollywood Photo Scanning has specialized in scanning prints, negatives, slides and medium/large-format film since 2009. One of the major differences between our service and many competitors is that we provide high-quality scanning at affordable large-collection pricing. Another important difference is that we do all scanning in-house here in Los Angeles. Your photographs and film are not sent overseas for processing.

Many local and national competitors are also customers of ours and subcontract us to scan their customers' photo collections. When you use us directly, there are no hidden scanning fees or special organizational requirements for how your collection must arrive.

We believe there is no substitute for hard work. That's why every photo we receive is gently air dusted, scanned by hand using cotton gloves, reviewed on-screen, and checked as part of our quality-control process.

We utilize Kodak, Nikon, Canon and Epson archiving technology so your scans are accurate reproductions of the originals. Only one team of technicians handles your photos from start to finish. Your collection remains in a clean, climate-controlled environment throughout the process.

Over 17 years, we have maintained a perfect track record for collection safety and client privacy. Your collection remains at our secure, climate-controlled Los Angeles scanning facility and is never sent overseas or to an outside processing center. Confidentiality and NDA arrangements are available for professional collections.

With Hollywood Photo Scanning, you'll receive high-quality scans and convenient pickup and delivery at your home or business throughout greater Los Angeles. You'll have peace of mind knowing your photo collection is being handled locally by professionals.

Every collection moves through an organized production workflow from intake through final delivery, with multiple quality-control checks before completion. We preserve boxes, albums, envelopes, dates, events and other meaningful groupings in the digital folder structure whenever practical. The finished archive is designed to be useful and understandable, not simply a directory containing thousands of scans.

We also offer impressive color, brightness, and contrast correction along with sharpening and noise removal. The quality and resolution of your images will be suitable for virtually any use you may need. Our technology allows us to extract the available photographic detail from your physical photos, creating a complete digital archive so your originals may rarely need to be handled again.

Of course, we always return your original collection to you, and in most cases it will be better organized and packaged than when we received it. We carefully organize your photographs, place them into new archival bags, clearly label the bags and boxes, and rebox your collection so that it is neat, protected, and ready to go back into storage. We also preserve the organization of your physical collection in the digital files and folders and, whenever possible, improve upon it to make your finished digital collection even easier to navigate. This extensive organization and repackaging is included at no additional charge.

Your scans can look better than the original film or prints after appropriate correction and enhancement. You can share the finished collection with family directly from our free download link. For professional collections, our scanning specifications are designed to meet high-resolution archival and media-use requirements. Families benefit from the same care and high standards required by demanding professional and media archives.

Thanks for taking the time to allow me to introduce the company. If you have a large photo collection you need digitized, please call or click "Leave us a message" in the lower-right corner so we can discuss your project. Our service includes the personal attention, care and the high standards that have kept families and professional clients coming back to us for 17 years. If we accept your project, we promise that you will be satisfied with our service. We greatly appreciate the opportunity to help preserve your precious memories.

Sincerely,

Tony LiVigni signature

Tony LiVigni, President
Hollywood Photo Scanning

Tony LiVigni, President of Hollywood Photo Scanning

What Is Included With Your Scanning Order

Careful scan preparation. Air dusting, cropping and rotation are included with still-media scanning at no additional charge.
The best scanner for each media type. For each media type, we select the Kodak, Nikon, Canon or Epson archival scanner and workflow that we have found produces the highest-quality results.
Organized digital delivery. We preserve meaningful sequence and collection organization in the finished digital archive whenever practical so thousands of scans remain understandable and easy to navigate.
Free digital delivery. A secure download link with unlimited downloads for three months is included. We can also transfer files to your own cloud storage at no charge.
Multiple quality-control checks. Collections move through an organized production workflow with image review and quality-control checks before final delivery. We check scan quality, cropping, rotation, completeness, sequence and the organization of the finished digital archive.
One dedicated point of contact. Once your project begins, one project manager becomes your primary contact and stays familiar with your collection from intake through delivery. You receive direct phone, text and email access so you are communicating with someone who actually knows your project rather than repeatedly explaining it to a general customer-service line.

Our Simple 1-2-3 Photo Scanning Process

Photo prints, film, slides and videotapes

1Gather Your Collection

You do not need to count, sort or completely reorganize a large collection before contacting us. Keep boxes, albums, envelopes and existing groupings together whenever possible.

Hollywood Photo Scanning pickup representative holding a collection box

2Discuss Your Collection With Us

Discuss the collection with us, receive a free no-obligation estimate, and arrange local pickup, shipping, or a direct drop-off appointment as appropriate for your order.

Finished digital photo collection

3Receive Your Organized Archive

We scan, process, organize and quality-check the digital collection, provide your finished digital files, and return the originals neatly organized and repackaged.

Print & Photo Album Scanning Prices

Our published prices are designed for large collections. We have a $300 minimum charge on all orders.

ServiceResolution / SizePrice
Prints600 DPI, wallet size to 8.5"×11"68¢ per photo
Prints300 DPI, wallet size to 8.5"×11"55¢ per photo
Photo Album Removal & ReinsertionRemoval and/or reinsertion15¢ removal + 15¢ reinsertion per photo
Oversized / A3-Size PrintsAbove 8.5"×11" through 11"×17"
300, 600 or 1200 DPI
300 DPI: $2.99
600 DPI: $3.49
1200 DPI: $11.99
Print and album sequence preservation: We maintain the sequence and meaningful groupings in which prints are received, including albums, boxes and envelopes, and reproduce that organization in the finished digital folder structure whenever practical.
Photo album organization: If a photograph is removed without reinsertion, it is returned in a clearly labeled archival photo bag at no additional charge. When reinsertion is requested, the original album is returned in the same organizational layout in which we received it. We video-record each album before disassembly and reference that recording during reinsertion to preserve original placement and sequence.
Handwritten captions, photo backs & memorabilia: When requested, we can scan the backs of photographs and preserve handwritten names, dates, events and notes so information that someone took the time to document for future generations is not lost. Related paper items and memorabilia can also be digitized when requested.

We Help Prevent You From Paying for Duplicates, and Clean Up the Rest for Free

Back-to-back duplicates are caught before you are charged for them. When identical prints are physically grouped together in the collection, we identify the extra copy during production, leave the redundant original with your collection, and do not scan or bill you for that duplicate.

Duplicates scattered throughout the collection are cleaned up after scanning at no additional charge. Once the full collection is digitized, we use software to locate exact duplicate images that may have appeared in different albums, envelopes or boxes. We keep the largest and best appropriate copy in the finished digital archive and remove the redundant digital copies.

This free service directly saves you money and hours of tedious sorting.

Photo Enhancements

By adding photo enhancements to your order, we spend considerable time working on each photo individually. We remove fading and color casts and apply manual image enhancements and color corrections as needed to provide the best-looking image possible. Photo enhancements are 95¢ per photo. Complimentary enhancement samples of your own scans are available before you decide.

Slides, Negatives & Film Scanning Prices

Examples of slides, negatives and film formats digitized by Hollywood Photo Scanning
ServiceResolution / SizePrice
35mm Slides & Negatives3000 DPI79¢ per slide/frame
35mm Slides & Negatives4000 DPI89¢ per slide/frame
Medium Format 120 & 220 Film2000 DPI, film smaller than 4"×5"$3.29 per frame
Large Format Film1200 DPI, film 4"×5" and larger$4.99 per frame
110 & 126 Negatives4000 DPI, cartridge-based film$2.29 per frame
APS Kodak Advantix4000 DPI95¢ per frame
Digital Negative Contact Sheet Production600 DPI$19.99 per roll/image
Included with film scanning: Compatible color film includes infrared dust removal where the film type allows it. Slides include sharpening plus exposure and underexposure correction.
Slide, negative and film organization: We accept slides and negatives in virtually any type of container and preserve the frame sequence and meaningful groupings in which they are received. If desired, slides received in carousels or trays can be consolidated into labeled archival slide boxes for easier storage at no additional charge.

Video Transfer Prices

Our standard video transfers are delivered as high-quality, highly compatible MP4 video files through a secure download link. We no longer create DVDs as an output format, as DVDs themselves have now become antiquated technology. In fact, we regularly convert our customers' existing home video DVDs to MP4 files. For supported digital tape formats, we also offer a higher-priced complete lossless native transfer that preserves the original digital video data without recompression in AVI or M2T format.

ServiceFormatsPrice
Consumer Video Tape to MP4 FileVHS, VHS-C, MiniDV, HDV, DVCAM, Digital8, Video8, Hi-8, 8mm cassette$29.95 per tape
Professional Video Tape to MP4 FileBetacam, Betacam SP, U-Matic 3/4", DVCPro, DVCProHD$49.95 per tape
Lossless Native Digital Video TransferMiniDV, DVCAM, HDV, DVCPro and Digital8. Original digital data preserved in native AVI or M2T format.$49.95 per tape
Home Video DVD Disc to MP4 FileStandard and Mini DVD Discs$14.95 per disc

Tapes under 10 minutes are half-price. Tape prices include up to two hours. Each additional hour over two hours costs an additional 50%. MP4 files are designed for easy playback, storage and sharing on modern computers, televisions, phones and tablets. Lossless AVI/M2T transfers are intended for customers who want the original digital tape data preserved without recompression.

Tape labeling: Relevant titles, dates, names and other useful information written on the original tape or label are incorporated into the finished digital filename whenever practical.

Convert VHS, VHS-C, DV & Other Video Tapes to High-Quality MP4 Files

Video and tape transfer equipment at Hollywood Photo Scanning

Trusted by Families, Media Companies & Professional Archives

Since 2009, Hollywood Photo Scanning has worked with families and demanding professional clients including Getty Images, leading television and film studios, documentary producers, universities, corporations, law firms, photographers, publishers, media companies, historical-preservation libraries, stock-photography agencies, advertisers and other professional archives. Other photo-scanning companies also entrust us with collections belonging to their own customers. Professional references are available upon request.

Families benefit from the same care, organization and high standards required by major professional archives. The handling and quality standards expected by demanding media and preservation clients are applied to the family collections entrusted to us as well.

Professional projects can be produced as high-resolution JPEG files, or TIFF when requested, with agreed resolution, naming conventions, folder structure and other archival specifications. Confidentiality and NDA arrangements are available when required.

Very large professional archives: For projects containing hundreds of thousands of images, we can divide production into a planned series of batches and develop a timeline with your team so scanning, review, delivery and your internal workflow remain synchronized throughout the project.

Pickup, Delivery, Drop-Off & Contact

Free local pickup and delivery is available for qualifying photo orders of 1,000 photos or more. Free shipping both ways is also available for qualifying orders. Please discuss your collection with us so we can arrange the most appropriate intake and return option.

Greater Los Angeles & Southern California Service Area

We serve customers throughout Altadena, Pasadena, Malibu, Santa Monica, Calabasas, Thousand Oaks, Woodland Hills, Topanga, Hollywood Hills, Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Sherman Oaks, Encino, Tarzana, Beverly Glen, Bel Air, Laurel Canyon, Beachwood Canyon, Los Feliz, La Crescenta, La Cañada Flintridge, Montrose, Simi Valley, Sierra Madre, Porter Ranch, Ventura, and surrounding communities.

Illustrated Los Angeles-area map showing Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Malibu, Santa Monica and Pasadena
We were proud to help families across Southern California protect and save irreplaceable photo collections during the recent wildfires affecting our communities.

Pickup, Shipping & Drop-Off Appointments

Most local orders are handled through scheduled pickup and delivery. Please discuss your order with Hollywood Photo Scanning before bringing a collection to any address.

The Melrose Avenue address shown on Google, Yelp and other public listings is our public contact and mailing address inside Mail Call. It is not our private scanning lab. Please do not arrive there with a photo collection unless we have specifically arranged that drop-off with you.

Direct drop-off at our scanning facility is available by appointment. When you contact us, we will arrange the most appropriate intake option for your order.

Hollywood Photo Scanning

Public Contact / Mailing Address. Please Discuss Your Order With Us Before Visiting.

5870 Melrose Ave, Suite #3252
Los Angeles, CA 90038-3760
Phone: (323) 596-0086
Toll Free: (888) 4 DIGPIX
Fax: (888) 434-4749

The public Melrose address is inside Mail Call and is not our scanning facility. Please discuss your order with Hollywood Photo Scanning and receive specific drop-off instructions before visiting or bringing a collection.

Hours: Open daily, 11am-9pm. Please contact us to discuss service or arrange an appointment.

Customer Testimonials & Reviews

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Hollywood Photo Scanning in the Media

KFWB News Talk 980AM “Home Wizards”
Hollywood Photo Scanning founder Tony LiVigni discusses family photo preservation and professional film scanning with host Cindy Dole.

Tony LiVigni appearing on Home Wizards with Cindy Dole

The Foothills Paper

Foothills Paper article about Hollywood Photo Scanning

Before & After Examples of Color Corrections

See examples of customer scans and enhanced images showing the color, brightness and contrast correction work available for photo collections.

View Hollywood Photo Scanning sample customer scans and enhanced images

Gift Certificates

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