Capture Australia started quietly. The idea was straightforward: Australian families have decades of printed photos sitting in albums, slowly fading, and they deserve a better way to preserve them. Building that way took time.
The first year was spent finding the right partners. Camera shops, imaging studios, and photo labs that already had the trust of their communities and the technical understanding to handle other people's irreplaceable memories with care. Building that network across Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane was not a quick process. Each partnership required real conversations, hands-on training, and a shared commitment to doing the job properly.
Alongside that partner work, the team spent the same period refining the core scanning technology. Glare from album sleeves and plastic covers is the main reason phone photos of old prints look so poor. The proprietary process that Capture Australia developed addresses that specific problem, producing sharp, colour-accurate digital files from albums that would otherwise be unscanneable without removal of the prints. That work is now recognised inside Google Photos, where Capture Australia appears as a recommended scanning partner.
In May 2026, PR Newswire published a release marking a significant milestone: the formal expansion of the Capture Australia partner network across New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and Queensland. It was a moment worth marking, not because the work started then, but because it reflects what the past year of groundwork actually built.
Headline: Capture Australia Expands Professional Photo Scanning Across New South Wales, The Australian Capital Territory and Queensland.
The release covers the expansion of the authorised partner network into NSW, the ACT and Queensland, bringing professional photo album scanning to customers across Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane. It details the no-glare scanning process, the partner-first service model, and the milestone of joining Google Photos as a recognised scanning provider.
Read the full release at PR Newswire: https://www.prnewswire.com/apac/news-releases/capture-australia-expands-professional-photo-scanning-across-new-south-wales-the-australian-capital-territory-and-queensland-302765403.html
Capture Australia is a professional photo digitisation service specialising in scanning bound photo albums using proprietary glare-removal technology. The service is available at trusted partner shops across Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane. Photos stay in the album throughout the process. No postage is required, and originals never leave the partner shop.