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Digitizing Your Slides

There are many reason you might want to digitize your slides; to preserve precious memories, stop further deteoration of your photos, make it easier to share photos with friends and family. Fortunately, there are many ways now to convert your old photos into digital format. Here we go over some of the easy ones.

Scanning Slides

You could buy a scanner specifically designed to scan slides, or use an attatchment for a dSLR or flatbed scanner. Using a scanner specifically designed for scanning slides willl of course produce the best results. This website is a good source of information on how to convert slides to digital (as well as 35mm film, prints and negatives) and scan your old photos. It also contains a list of photo scanning services.

When scanning your old photos, sometimes the result will leave things to be desired. In this case you might need a professional photo restoration service. Going into that is beyond the scope of this lens, however!

Finish

In summary, there are several ways to scan your slides as well as other formats such as film negatives, but you pretty much have to either buy a scanner or pay to have them scanned.

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