Convert Slides to Digital

Convert slides to digital before the colours fade

Somewhere in most Australian families there's a box of slides. Carousel trays from Christmas at the beach, the honeymoon, the first house, the kids in the backyard pool. For years they came out once a year on the projector, then the projector bulb went and the box went into the wardrobe. When you convert slides to digital with Tapes To Digital, those pictures come out of the box and onto every phone, laptop and TV in the family.

Each slide becomes its own digital photo, so you can zoom in on faces, print a favourite for a frame, or put the whole collection into a slideshow for a birthday, an anniversary or a memorial. Your original slides come back to you with every order.

Why it's worth doing now

Slides were made to last, but not forever. The colour dyes in slide film slowly shift over the decades, so skies drift towards purple and skin tones turn red, and heat and humidity in a garage or cupboard can let mould take hold on the film. Every year a slide spends in a box is another year of fading.

A digital copy stops the clock. It doesn't fade, it can be backed up in more than one place, and it can be shared with brothers, sisters and grandchildren who have never seen these photos because they only ever lived in one box, in one house.

What you get back

• Every slide as a separate digital photo, ready to view, share and print
• Your photos on USB, as a cloud download, on an external hard drive or on DVD, whichever suits your family
• Cloud storage from $9 for 3 months if you'd like everyone to download them from wherever they live
• Your original slides returned, every order

Slide scanning prices

Slide scanning is priced per slide. You'll find the current prices on our pricing page, or send us a quick WhatsApp with roughly how many slides you have and we'll come back with an exact quote. We'll match any competitor's price for the same service.

How long it takes

If you need the photos for a particular date, such as a milestone birthday, a wedding or a funeral slideshow, tell us when you book and we'll let you know what we can do. A single tray is a very different job from a lifetime of slides, so we'll confirm the timing for your collection when you book.

Drop off or post your slides

Bring your slides to one of our 12 by-appointment drop-off points: Killara, Beverly Hills, Parramatta and Macquarie Park in Sydney; Fairy Meadow in Wollongong; Crestmead in Logan, south of Brisbane; Greenvale and Point Cook in Melbourne; Victoria Park in Perth; Watson in Canberra; and Kurralta Park and Virginia in Adelaide. Not near one? Post them in from anywhere in Australia at the same price. Find your nearest drop-off.

Slides, photos, negatives and tapes in one box

Most slide collections turn up alongside a few photo albums, some strips of negatives or a camcorder tape or two. Send them together. We also scan photos to digital, convert negatives to digital and convert VHS to digital, so the whole family archive can come home as one collection.

Questions first? Call us on +61 485 031 678 or message us on WhatsApp. More than 10,000 families have trusted us with over 1 million memories.