At Shop 5/60 Elizabeth Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Photoland's own staff scan your photo albums and loose prints in person, using Capture Australia's scanning technology, near Martin Place Metro. There is no mail-in option and no price published upfront: you get an estimated photo count and an indicative quote at drop-off, and pay on the exact count once scanning is finished. Most collections are ready in two to three weeks.
Photoland is on the ground floor of the tower fronting Martin Place, a short walk from Barangaroo, Wynyard, Circular Quay, The Rocks, Pyrmont, Ultimo, Surry Hills, Darlinghurst and Potts Point. Martin Place Metro station is at the door, making it an easy lunch-break drop-off for anyone working in the CBD. Photoland opens Monday to Friday, 8am to 4:30pm, and is closed on weekends.
Photoland's staff scan photo albums exactly as they are, page by page, through the plastic sleeve, using Capture Australia's technology, so nothing needs to come out. Loose prints of any size, and framed portraits and prints up to 45cm x 70cm, are scanned through the glass without removing them from the frame. Film, negatives, slides, VHS tapes and other video formats are not part of this service. Photoland runs its own separate lab for those, including film developing, negative and slide scanning, and video-to-digital transfers, alongside photo restoration and framing.
Walk in with your albums or prints, no appointment needed. A staff member checks what you've brought and gives you an estimated photo count and an indicative quote on the spot. Scanning happens on Capture Australia's equipment, installed at Photoland and run by Photoland's own trained staff, in the same shop where you dropped off, not sent to another branch or an outside lab. Once scanning is complete, the exact photo count is confirmed and that is what you pay on. You collect your original albums and prints together with your digital files, usually within two to three weeks.
Photographs stay at 60 Elizabeth Street for the entire job. They are not freighted to a processing centre elsewhere and do not travel between Capture Australia partner branches. Photoland's staff scan them on site, using Capture Australia's equipment, and that is also where customers collect their originals and files.
Photoland's shop sits inside 60 Elizabeth Street, built as the Sun Newspaper Building and opened on 15 October 1929. It was designed by architect Joseph Alexander Kethel in the Interwar Skyscraper Gothic style and is listed on the NSW State Heritage Register. The Sun ran its editorial offices and printing presses here until 1939. Moore Street was widened and renamed Martin Place in 1921, and Sun Newspapers bought this site anticipating that Martin Place would eventually be extended east to meet it, which did not happen until 1935, six years after the Sun Building opened. The Sydney Cenotaph, commissioned for Martin Place in 1927, was unveiled in 1929, the same year the Sun Building opened.
Photoland takes walk-ins during opening hours, no appointment required. Originals stay at the Elizabeth Street shop the whole time and are not sent to another Capture Australia branch. Most collections are ready in two to three weeks. Film, negatives and video are not part of this scanning service, but Photoland's own lab separately offers film developing, negative and slide scanning, and video-to-digital transfers.
Looking for other Sydney drop-off points? See Photo Scanning in Sydney for four more partner shops across the Inner West, Upper North Shore, Northern Beaches and Sydney's south.