35mm Color Slide Scanners – Preserve Precious Memories

If you have 35mm slides, you should seriously consider using a color slide scanner to preserve and protect the information and memories contained on these slides. Here are some suggestions.

33mm color slides where wonderful to show your pictures or presentations to a broader audience. You can illuminate the images and show them on a large screen. However slides are difficult to organize and easily retrieve the particular slide you want to see.

In addition, 35mm color slides can degrade over time and you will lose clarity and color. The film itself can dry out and become brittle as well. So before things get too far gone, you should consider preserving the images on your slides by using a color scanner.

35mm color slide scanners are optimized to load a standard slide and then quickly scan the information and save it as a high resolution digital image. There are a variety of slide scanners and they can range in price from $75 to hundreds of dollars.

Some of the scanners need to be connected to a computer and others will transfer the information to a storage card (like an SD card) or USB memory device. However the great thing about being able to digitize your color slides is that you can load the digital images into specialized software where you can manipulate the image to improve features and correct problems with them.

In this way you can enhance the color if it has deteriorated over time. You can also touch up areas where there may be red eye, overexposed/underexposed areas, or you may simply want to crop the image to suit the desired effect.

If desired these images can be loaded into another type of program which stores and organizes the information. So you can easily access a particular slide by subject, date, or any other parameter you set. If you have a lot of slides your wish to organize, this software makes it a snap.

When considering the purchase of a slide scanner, you need to understand how you intend to use it. There is no point paying a lot of money for a high resolution unit if your slides don’t have a great deal of detail or don’t require this degree of fineness. For example if intend to scan the slides and then place the images on a website, a high resolution image is not necessary at all so you can save yourself some money.