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You can always start at home with your home own scanner (if you have one), see how it works and go to a professional if you need to. It may be actually be you go to a professional more for their printer than their scanner, as many home scanners may make a good scan but the home printer may not of good enough quality. In short, see how it works.

If you can get a high quality high resolution scan on your own (maybe you can, maybe you can't), then you can send the just the scan to a professional printer's and not have to send the negative anywhere. Obviously, that's if you chose to get a digital photo rather than a real photo photo.

I once had some valuable slides and, on a bit of a lark, dropped them off in the envelope at the local drug store. My only concern the slides getting lost, but I wanted to see how the converted to photos (snapshots) and I got all the snapshots and slides back fine. Not saying I'd do it again.