Capture Australia's photo scanning service is available in Canberra through our authorised partner Lucent Imaging, a specialist imaging studio at 8 Geelong St, Fyshwick ACT 2609. Book an appointment, bring in your albums or loose prints, and Lucent Imaging's own staff scan them on site using Capture Australia's proprietary glare-removal technology. Your originals never leave the studio.
Lucent Imaging is in Fyshwick, Canberra's light industrial and wholesale precinct, alongside the Fyshwick Fresh Food Markets and the Canberra Outlet Centre. It's an easy drive from the Canberra CBD, Kingston, Manuka, Barton, Forrest and Griffith, and just as straightforward from Woden, Belconnen, Tuggeranong and Gungahlin via Canberra Avenue and the Monaro Highway. Parking is easier here than closer to the city centre.
Lucent Imaging's staff scan photo albums page by page through the plastic sleeve using Capture Australia's technology, so nothing needs to come out. Loose prints of any size go through the same process, as do framed portraits and prints up to 45cm x 70cm, scanned through the glass without removing them from the frame. Film, negatives, slides and video formats aren't part of this scanning service, but Lucent Imaging runs its own separate studio offering photo restoration, large-format printing and fine art reproduction, worth asking about when you book.
Lucent Imaging is by appointment only. Book online and the studio will confirm a time. At your appointment, a staff member reviews what you've brought and gives you an estimated photo count and an indicative quote. Scanning happens on site using Capture Australia's proprietary equipment, run by Lucent Imaging's own trained staff. The exact count is confirmed once scanning is complete, and that's what you pay on. Turnaround is typically two to three weeks.
Fyshwick began in 1918 as the Molonglo Internment Camp, and when it closed in 1919 its buildings and roads were reused to house the workers who built the rest of Canberra, years before Parliament House or Lake Burley Griffin existed. Canberra itself was chosen as the capital site in 1908, and Walter Burley Griffin's design won the international competition in 1912. The provisional Parliament House opened in 1927 and the permanent Parliament House opened on Capital Hill in 1988. The Australian Public Service still accounts for about a quarter of Canberra's jobs today, and generations of public service and defence postings have filled Canberra family albums with photos of house moves and both Parliament Houses along the way.
Capture Australia's no-glare scanning process isn't limited to Canberra. We also have trusted partners in Sydney, Newcastle and Brisbane. Running a Canberra business, club or school with an archive to preserve? Our heritage & organisation archive digitisation service handles honour boards, yearbooks and founder-era collections at scale.