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Order FormsLegacy Box vs. Affordable Scanning — Real Side-by-Side Results
We paid for this test ourselves. We took the same 35mm slides — the exact same originals — and sent them to Legacy Box, Costco Photo, and Walgreens. Then we scanned the same slides ourselves at Affordable Scanning Services. Every comparison on this page uses identical original slides. Nothing has been altered after delivery from any service. We have the original discs from each service to document every result shown here.
What you will see consistently: the competitor services returned automated batch scans with no individual color correction. Our results on the same slides show what individual Photoshop editing actually does to the same starting material.
See also our full five-page side-by-side comparison series: Page 1 • Page 2 • Page 3 • Page 4 • Page 5
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Comparison Images
The slides below had significant dye fading as many older slides do. Our scan looked similar to the Walgreen’s and Costco results before individual Photoshop color correction was applied. The correction is included at no extra charge on every scan we deliver.
Should You Take Your 35mm Slides To Costco, Walgreen's or Affordable Scanning?
We go to Costco at least once a week. It is a great place for buying bulk food, TVs and other Electronics. Toilet paper is their biggest seller and their Hot Dogs and rotisserie chicken are just delicious and a great deal. Their return policy is better than any other place where we do business and they have an automatic extended warranty on TVs. Costco just is not a good place to take your slides to have them scanned, if you care in the least about what your final images are going to look like. Costco had a special on digitizing slides, photos and movies and VHS tapes, last month. We thought it would be interesting to take the same slides that we tested Walgreen's with, and have them scan these same slides. Took about four weeks for them to turn around a minimal order because they ship them off somewhere and then they have to be shipped back again to the local store. After seeing what they did with our test scans, I can't help thinking that there are an awful lot of VERY disappointed Costco customers out there this week. We thought that Walgreen's did a horrible job of scanning slides but Costco is SO much worse. I think that a lot of people looking for slide scanning just don't realize that they can get a much better job done, if they pick the right company to do the work.
So, what can you learn from these scans from Affordable Scanning, Legacy Box, Costco and Walgreen's?
We hope you can see that anybody can spend a lot of money on a good scanner, although there is no evidence that Legacy Box, Costco or Walgreen's used an expensive scanner for these slides, but, the real difference is in what happens after the scanning is done and how talented your Photoshop Technicians are. We think that we have the best that you can find. You are one of the lucky ones to see the difference before you decide who will scan your slides.
Don't just take our word for our tests at Costco and Walgreen's, although we have the proof, their original disks with these very same images on them, to back up what we are saying and showing on this page. Its always possible that Costco or Walgreen's may start to do as good a job at scanning slides as we do. But, you really should test them and us to make sure you will get the best results for your scanning investment. We offer to do a Free demo scan of TEN of your slides. We usually turn this around within a day or two after receipt. Send us ten of your slides and get your images back and THEN send the SAME ten slides to Legacy Box, Costco or Walgreen's or any other service and get their free sample scans. Then compare the results. We look forward to the results because we know that you are going to be so much happier with what we can do for your slide collection than you will get from any other scanning company. You don't have to settle for poor, uncaring "workmanship".