Capture Australia's photo scanning services are available across Sydney through five authorised partner shops, plus our Capture Service Centre at 82 Waterloo Road, Macquarie Park NSW 2113. Looking for the best scanning service in Sydney? Our bulk photo scanning service and photo digitising service let you drop off your albums in person, no postage required, and your originals never leave the partner shop. If you need help with your old photos, you do not need to know how to digitise old photos yourself. Bring them to a partner shop and the team can explain the process. For photo scanning in Sydney CBD, Photoland is the convenient city-centre drop-off near Martin Place Metro.
All five partners use Capture Australia's proprietary glare-removal technology to digitise bound photo albums, loose prints, and photos or prints behind glass or plastic, including large-format and oversized prints and framed portraits up to 45cm x 70cm. Slides, negatives, film of any format and VHS tapes aren't part of our photo camera scanning technology, but partner shops may be able to help with these separately, so it's worth reaching out to them. Albums stay assembled and photos stay in their sleeves throughout the entire scanning process.
Bring your photo albums or loose prints to the partner shop in person. Trained partner staff will check your collection, give you an estimated photo count and an indicative quote. Scanning is performed in-store using Capture Australia's proprietary technology. Your originals are returned to you unchanged at collection along with high-resolution JPEG files delivered via a secure cloud link. A USB drive is available on request.
Pricing depends on your partner shop and the size and type of your collection. The final count is always confirmed before payment, so there are no surprise charges. For large collections of 500 photos or more, scanning can often work out to around one dollar per photo or less. Ask at drop-off about scanning your whole collection. Turnaround is typically two to three weeks depending on volume and current queue length at the partner shop.
Capture Australia's no-glare scanning process isn't limited to Sydney. We also have trusted partners in Newcastle, Brisbane and Canberra, so it's easy to point interstate family to the same trusted process. Running a Sydney 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.