Denver Digital Imaging Center

Called to inquire about there services and the lady over the phone couldn’t have sounded more disinterested in assisting me. Sorry to have interrupted you, I thought additional business if what you are here for. She definitely needs to be talked to about customer service if she is going to be the one answering the phones for the business. Definitely won’t be going here or giving them my business after this. I’ll take my money elsewhere now.

I discovered The Slideprinter three years ago while traveling through Colorado. I’ve used them on several occasions since and I have only great things to say about them. They are hands down the best bunch of people that I’ve had the pleasure to work with, I only wish I lived closer.

It’s very hard to get good scans from E-​6, or any type of 35 mm film. The Slideprinter meets my expectations, and then some!
For what it is worth, I shoot film casually, but outside of the camera on my phone, a 35 mm SLR is still my only means of photography. I love the darkroom, but don’t have a light sealed room with running water. So even though I can process films, I can’t make prints. I have extensive time with a Nikon Super Coolscan 4000ED, and Lightroom. I ended up selling the Nikon Super Coolscan 4000ED, because I grew very tired of the digital darkroom.
I hate trying to match the color of a slide when seen on a light table, versus what I have to manipulate on the computer screen. Each image takes time. And out of a roll of 36 exposures, I shoot consistently enough with a Nikon FM2N that the majority of my exposures are going to come out well-​exposed. Which means more images to scan! Pfft… I value my time;-)
But now I have a place I can trust with my scans. The Slideprinter matches the colors of slides accurately. The sharpness of their Level II scans is not noticeably better than what I acheived my Nikon scanner, but the colors are spot on. And that’s what I care about.
As for black and white, I will continue to process black and white myself. I’m not sure if I want to pay someone to scan black and white, but if I did not have time to scan the images myself, The Slideprinter would get my business without hesitation.

Back in the days when we walked uphill both ways to and from school, and lived in a shoebox in the middle of the road with one black rotary phone in the house, there was this weird stuff called 35 mm film.
We used it in «cameras» and it helped us «take pictures».
The Slideprinter (aka The Denver Digital Imaging Center) is great for anyone from amateurs to the most demanding professional. Custom development, scanning, retouching, printing — you name it. If you still use Ektachrome or FujiChrome color slide film, this is the place — regardless of you you feel about the alleged obsolescence of non-​digital cameras.
There are many legacy/​antique cameras that use films that most people haven’t heard of. Where to go? Ask here first.
What Listen Up is to Audio/​Video, The Slideprinter is to photography. Where else can you get a custom Giclee print made?
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Note: Cool story mostly useful to photographers and happy endings…
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I had a unique experience towards the end of the standard C-​41 process color film print era (pretty much the last film everyone reading this probably used). I had purchased a relatively uncommon C-​41 B&W film, and left it in one of my old Nikons for 8 years. The film broke when I was trying to rewind it, and I gave the canister to a standard lame processor (Sam’s). Alas, since I removed the canister in the dark of my closet, I had no idea how much was in the metal roll. Turned out it was about an inch — the rest was stuck on my camera spindle, undeveloped, with no proof of film type, other than my word.
I didn’t know if anyone in town would be able to trust me and process the undeveloped film still stuck in the camera since it did not have any appropriate labeling indicating the chemical development process.
I gave The Slideprinter my closed camera and they used a special test to verify the film type, because if we were wrong it could have ruined very some expensive equipment of theirs.
The especially LOVELY gift amongst this whole crazy experience is that I was able to convince my 9 year old my Nikon FG was indeed a «time travel» machine. Before I tried to process anything, I had half a roll left, and I used the remainder of the film under the guise that I had a magic secret box. Thus, in the same roll, she could see time zoom by! To see that look in a 9-​year old’s eyes!
It was MAGICAL. Film can still be magical, just like a classic car. I highly recommend The Slideprinter/​Denver Digital Imaging Center as a quality business to treat special photography needs with class.
Again, what Listen Up is to Audio/​Video, The Slideprinter is to photography.