Digitising Glass Plate Negatives – Seeing the North with Sankey
Watch our video on digitising glass plate negatives and see the beautiful results achieved in Signal Film and Media’s National Lottery Heritage funded project.
TownsWeb Archiving’s digitisation technicians have a wealth of experience in scanning photos and photograph collections, offering you an exceptional photo scanning service.
Digitisation protects your photograph collections from loss or damage and makes them quickly accessible. We can create output formats in TIFF and JPEG (JPEG2000), or any other industry-standard format you may require. We can also create further surrogate files for use as thumbnails, for example.
We use specialised, high-resolution flatbed scanners, to support delicate items and expertly digitise photos. We also have a range of high-resolution cameras offering non-contact capture of your precious, old and fragile material. All files are captured by our highly trained digitisation technicians using overhead, daylight balanced, non-heat producing lighting, before undergoing a formal quality assurance checking procedure. The final step in the process is the delivery of your electronic files by hard drive.
Get in touch to find out if we can digitise your collection:
Watch our video on digitising glass plate negatives and see the beautiful results achieved in Signal Film and Media’s National Lottery Heritage funded project.
As part of our ongoing “How to Digitise…” blog series, we share our best practice tips to safely digitise glass plate negatives.
To help archivists and collections managers that may be planning to digitise their 35mm film collections, here we have shared our best practice tip.
Head over to our digitisation Getting Started guide for everything you need to know before taking that first step to digitisation success!
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