ImageLife - Digital Archive Solutions

Specialist Scanning Services example 1

As an institutional affiliate of the Society of Archivists Our Aim is:

To provide a professional and efficient service meeting the needs of our customers for specialist digital scanning services.

ImageLife offer a complete specialist digitisation service tailored to the specific needs of the customer. We can digitally capture a wide variety of objects, including; paintings, postcards, photographs, transparencies, glass plate negatives, microfilm, bound volumes, manuscript and other printed material.

What is so special about ImageLife - ImageLife is building up a fine portfolio of work undertaken for organisations that demand a very high standard - our staff care about the job and are equipped for the task be it gloves to flicker free cold lights. Our camera equipment is superb and we are willing to travel.

Water-colour

Panoramas example 1 - example 2 - example 3

The ImageLife panorama is a superb way of introducing the virtual visitor to your property, lead them through your foyer, let them see the superb facilities that you are offering; this is an exciting yet economical way of promoting your business or services.

	Virtual Objects example 1 - example 2
	Presenting a selection of your display items as virtual objects not only enhances your web site it helps to stimulate interest in your collection. The virtual visitors may then be encouraged to come and see the item themselves. Be it a rare object or some work a day item the virtual object brings the subject to life.
	Digitising Original Material
	Our purpose-built digitisation suite is based around a Phase One scanners with a Hasselblad and Contax cameras, which allows us to capture material in file sizes up to 146Mb. Equipped with a pneumatically controlled book cradle and book shuttle, the camera-base is a versatile and sensitive machine ideal for filming fragile documents including:


	Oast Workers


			AO drawings, Pictures, Maps
			photographs
			postcards
			glass plate negatives
			manuscripts
			books and most other printed materials.

Natural History

The expertise we have gained in working with fragile and valuable materials for microfilming is transferable to the digitisation process. In common with best practise, ImageLife will normally always scan at the highest resolution in the first instance to create the best quality image. From that master image, resolution or size can be compressed to create surrogates suited to the desired end-usage.