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Where do I start?
Our average photo organizing client has more than 100,000 digital photos and some of our clients have as many as…
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What’s in my Digital Gathering Toolkit?
Every digital photo organizing projects starts with gathering because we can estimate the scope of the project, save time, and…
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Where should I store my photos?
The best way to preserve your physical photos for generations to come is to store them in…
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What Are The Risks?
In order to preserve your physical photos, it’s necessary to understand the risks that can cause decay and damage. The four main risk factors are…
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Optical Disc Risk
CDs and DVDs are popular digital media formats, but it doesn’t mean they’re safe. If you have backups on optical media, you must understand the risks…
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Best Photo Scanning Setup
At Chaos to Memories we scan tens of thousands of photos every year at high resolution and incredible quality, but would you believe we don’t use any…
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Negatives in the wrong order?
Most film cameras load and shoot film in order from frame 1 to frame 24 or 36. That means each frame was exposed and…
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Old Storage Formats Make Bad Backups
We’re working on a digital photo organizing project that involves lots of old digital media formats. Most of these formats are only 20-25 years old, but technology changes fast…
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Estimating Photo Slides
One of the most common questions we get is about the cost of photo scanning projects. We could spend many hours counting photos to get an exact number, but instead…
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Estimating Printed Photos
Last week we had a new client drop off a small batch of photos she needed scanned for a memorial slideshow. To provide a quick estimate…
