The Blowup Lab offers full scanning services including scanning originals, prints, transparencies and negatives.

Our over size scanning equipment lets us scan originals up to 4 feet by 6 feet. We have recently upgraded both our hardware and software so that now we can make scans that are over 500 megs!
Our Better Light equipment provides a combination of large, high-resolution files, extraordinary detail, and superb control of color and tones, Better Light scan backs have been the camera of choice for some of the most successful advertising, commercial, industrial, art repro and archival applications in the photo industry.

The technology used by Better Light is totally different from the single-shot digital capture cameras using area array sensors (CCD and CMOS). Our scan backs gather the information for the image in one continuous scan as the light is collected by three, individually filtered rows of pixels – this is called a tri-linear CCD. Since it moves across the “film plane” capturing light one row of pixels at a time, it will take several minutes to complete a large file. On the other hand, no other camera is gathering such a huge population of pixels (often 144 Megapixels or MORE) over such a large format area of nearly 3”x4”—that’s 5X the physical area of most array sensors! And, all of the pixels are PURE, true RGB color, not interpolated color by the camera software.