Convert Old Photos to Digital

Photo albums and shoeboxes full of photographs are susceptible to floods, fire, theft, and other catastrophes, but digital images can be saved and shared forever.

Digital copies offer organizational features so you can rename, archive, and add additional information.

Photo albums, photo prints, scrapbooks, and shoeboxes of photographs take up a lot of space, but you can store them in digital format on your computer, a hard drive, a USB flash drive, or in the cloud (via iCloud, Google Photos, or Dropbox).

When you have preserved digital photo albums, your loved ones won’t have to fight over the physical copies of your family memories to enjoy them for decades to come.

It is much easier to share digital photos across the world with anybody using email and social media.

By digitising your photo albums and loose photographs and uploading them to platforms like Google Photos, you can immediately benefit from advanced search, archive, and reminder features

When we create digital photos from your precious memories, we use innovative retouching and color correction tools, so your old photos look as good as they can be. Plus, with your own photo editing software and image enhancement tools, you can improve and edit digital photographs the way you want.

With photo editing software, you can improve the quality of your slides without losing the original version

In addition to photo scanning, our advanced technology scans entire albums without removing photos. This unique service is only available at Capture and is perfect for delicate vintage albums.

Even if your photos are stuck in an album, simply give them to us and we'll scan them as is.

Our scanning includes colour correction, auto-cropping, and glare removal for amazing results.

• Pros

Simple, easy, fast: No need to remove photos from albums!

Receive vivid, print-quality digital images with glare removal, professional cropping, and colour correction.

Your memories are in safe hands with our top-notch security systems and meticulous tracking at every step.

Photos stay intact - again as we don’t need to remove them from the albums.

100% satisfaction or we'll reprocess the scanning.

14-day (or less) turnaround time without added charges.

Affordable at only HK$2 per scanned image

• Cons

We only accept albums up to 14” x 14”

Photo scanner equipment will help you scan photos to digital format one at a time. Each scan will produce a new JPEG file. It requires lots of work but generally gives good results. However, you will pay for good quality digital memories because these machines cost US$300 or more. For example, the popular and reputable Epson FastFoto costs US$499.99. If you want a more affordable option, then a standard flatbed scanner can work, but the results won’t be as professional in appearance. .

• Pros

Typically decent quality DPI resolution (depending on the machine)

Creates JPEG files, which typically have good detail and colour

• Cons

Expensive, especially for the best photo-scanning service equipment

Time-consuming because you must complete each scanned image separately

You will have to remove each photo, which means you potentially damage old photos

You can use a digital camera or smartphone to take digital images of your physical photos. It’s fast and affordable because you can conveniently perform the scanning routine at home with items you already have. However, the digital copy will end up looking worse than the original photograph because it will pick up glares, dust, fingerprints, and other inconsistencies. It will also reduce the quality and produce a lower-resolution DPI.

• Pros

Affordable (if you already have a camera)

Convenient and you can do it yourself

• Cons

Low-quality that looks different from the original family photo

Will show glares, dust, scratches, and debris

Harder to crop so you may cut out some of the picture or show surrounding areas

Photo scanning apps like Photomyne take advantage of your smartphone technology to scan your photos better than simply using your camera, but the quality of the scans will depend primarily on the quality of your phone’s camera, lighting conditions, and your skill level. Plus, it’s a very time-consuming process to create each digital image one by one.

• Pros

Affordable as long as you own a smartphone with a decent camera

Affordable and simple do-it-yourself process

• Cons

Time-consuming, especially if you want single images

Quality depends on many factors including the quality of the camera, lighting and surroundings, and user skill

May show more glares, dust, reflections, and other frustrating imperfections

Simply drop-off media at the Capture Experience Center and estimate the number of photos you want us to digitise as close as possible. Then, will contact you to confirm what to scan if the estimated number is not accurate.

No! Capture offers the first-ever touchless photo album scanning service, which means we can scan photo albums as-is, without removing each individual photograph.

Capture can scan photos from 2” x 2” to 8” x 12”.

We accept albums of all sizes up to 14” by 14” and can preserve photos of any size within an album or scrapbook.

No, we can also digitise Super 8 film, slides, VHS tapes, Betamax videotapes, MiniDV home movies, film reels, and more!

Yes, Capture conversion service can scan documents within your photo albums as long as the dimensions do not exceed that of the photo album. If the document is folded or not attached to your photo album, we may need to touch it to position it for high-quality scanning, but we always treat your media with utmost care. Please include additional information with your order about any documents and let us know if you have any questions about what types of photos, documents, and scrapbooks we can scan.