Severe color cast · Skin tones
Family gathering
Strong red fading balanced across mixed skin tones, clothing, and a shaded background.
For photographers and capture professionals
A new photography service may already be sitting in your clients’ closets.
Families have boxes of slides that have been aging for decades. You can keep those irreplaceable originals local, capture them with equipment you already know, and put BurlyMingo Heritage behind your business as the restoration lab.
This is what you can deliver: a real source capture restored from surviving image information.
A familiar problem
Everybody knows someone with thousands of slides—and no safe plan for them.
They may be the only copies of childhoods, weddings, deployments, vacations, and relatives who are no longer here. Yet the collection is still in carousels and boxes because the choices feel wrong.
Too important to ship casually
Many families do not want the only copy of their history handed to a shipping company or transferred to a distant warehouse.
Too faded for basic scanning
A clean digital capture is only the beginning. Aging dye layers, severe color casts, weak contrast, and difficult exposure need a restoration process built for old film.
Too large for one-image-at-a-time editing
Thousands of frames can overwhelm a normal retouching workflow. Heritage is designed to restore collections consistently while keeping difficult images honest.
The photographer’s advantage
Be the trusted person who brings the capture service to them.
You already understand cameras, focus, exposure, careful handling, and client relationships. Capture the collection locally. Keep the physical media with the family. Send Heritage the digital working copies and let us handle the restoration backend.
- You find and serve the customer
- You capture with your own tested workflow
- The physical slides never need to be shipped to us
- You keep the original RAW captures
- You choose what to charge for capture, travel, organization, and delivery
- Heritage charges you only for accepted restoration work
Start with what you already own
The expensive part may already be in your camera bag.
If you already own a compatible RAW-capable camera and macro lens, a compact slide-capture kit can cost less than many new lenses. You do not need a storefront, a commercial scanner, a franchise, or your own restoration software.
Camera
Use a compatible RAW-capable camera you already trust. Full frame is not required.
Macro lens
Use a compatible macro lens that can reproduce the full slide sharply and consistently.
Portable capture kit
Our preferred option is the VALOI easy35 v2 Slide Scanning Kit. VALOI describes it as a camera-and-macro-lens system for mounted slides and film.
Equipment prices, shipping, taxes, and compatibility change. VALOI is a recommendation—not a BurlyMingo purchase requirement—and buying equipment does not guarantee customer demand or income.
A simple working relationship
Your local service. Our restoration lab.
Find the collection
Offer slide capture to existing clients, local families, organizers, archivists, historical groups, and referral partners.
Capture locally
Work at the client’s location or another arrangement you control. The family keeps custody of the physical originals.
Send digital captures
Create a Heritage project and transfer supported RAW or source files in manageable batches.
Deliver restored history
Download the finished collection and deliver it using your own brand, customer package, and retail pricing.
Know the wholesale cost
Price the customer relationship you provide—not just the restoration line.
Heritage publishes its Base Restoration rates so you can plan before accepting a collection. Your customer price may also reflect capture time, travel, cleaning, handling, project organization, storage, delivery, and the trust involved in working with irreplaceable originals.
These are BurlyMingo Heritage wholesale charges, not suggested retail prices or earnings projections. You decide whether a project makes sense for your business.
Show the work before the full commitment
Begin with a representative sample.
Create a project and upload up to three representative source captures. Heritage restores each one as a low-resolution comparison so you can see the likely result before proceeding with the complete collection.
The sample is designed to evaluate capture quality and restoration potential. It does not replace a paid full-resolution project.
- 1One representative normal frame
- 2One heavily faded or color-shifted frame
- 3One dark or otherwise difficult frame
A service that can fit the business you already have
Take one collection—or build a recurring local offering.
There is no membership, franchise, territory, required brand, or recurring fee. Accept occasional projects, add the service to an established photography business, or develop relationships with organizers and archives over time.
Your brand remains out front
Heritage can operate as a white-label restoration backend. Your customer relationship remains yours.
Originals remain local
BurlyMingo receives digital working copies—not the customer’s physical slides.
No income promises
This is a business opportunity—not an income promise. You decide what demand exists in your market and how to operate your business.
Bring the lab to your next client
Preserve the originals locally. Deliver restoration professionally.
Create a free account, start a project with representative captures, and see whether Heritage belongs behind your next collection.