Winter seems to have finally hit with a vengeance, so for this newsletter, we thought we would focus on some ideas perfect for this time of year.

Most of us agree that the digital revolution is fantastic, but how many of you have boxes and boxes of pre-digital photos, slides, movies and tapes? There is no better time to sort through all those special family memories and make them accessible for all the family, now and in the future.

It seems that every family has boxes of slides stored away that no-one can access any more. Well we have the solution!

Collect them altogether and let us scan them onto archival CD or DVDs.

Turning your slides into digital format means you can print photos easily, give a CD copy to everyone in the family, including those overseas, and even watch them on your big screen TV – so much easier than the old projector and screen days!

Maybe you don’t have slides, but you do have old movie tapes? With VHS machines on their way out, how do you make sure the tapes of special family birthdays and Christmases can be watched in a few years time? It doesn’t matter whether your tapes are VHS, VHS-C, Hi-8 or even really old 8mm movie tapes, we can copy them all to DVD for you.

Then there are the boxes and boxes of photos from pre-digital days. Our shoebox scanning system is designed specifically to transfer your old film photos to a digital format.

You can sort them yourself or we can sort them for you, then we scan each one and transfer them to a gold archival CD complete with large index prints.

You can scan up to 500 photos for only $99 or for more detailed pricing, visit https://buckleyphotos.co.nz/services/shoebox_Scanning.html

So now you have all your family’s history on CD or DVD – what else can you do with it, apart from looking at it on your TV? Of course you can make prints using one of our easy to use Kodak kiosks, but how about getting more creative and designing your own photo book or collage poster. Ideal for all sorts of occasions – from 21st to 90th birthday parties, anniversaries or perhaps as a special tribute book.

Photobooks tell your story in a unique and professional format.

Choose between creating the book yourself on one of our kiosks, or simply give the information to one of our friendly staff and let us create the book for you.

Photobooks are only $49.95 for 10 pages, include up to 150 photos and covers come in a variety of colours. Collage prints are a great way to group photos of a special holiday or family event and are easy to create on our kiosks and start from as low as $7!