Slide Scanner: An Efficient Strategy To Digitize Your Old Shots
Slide Scanner: An Efficient Strategy To Digitize Your Old Shots
A slide scanner is a machine that can be connected to your computer or notebook which reads a traditional 35mm slide and gives you with a digital copy of the photo. Those tools could be tiny stand alone gadgets which are specific to the purpose of scanning slides, or they may be an attachment to a standard flat bed scanner.
Slide scanners are becoming increasingly more popular as increasingly more people take up digital photography and realize that they do not have electronic versions of their old photos. The benefit of scanning a slide vs scanning a photo is that there seems to be much better definition and much less noise in the resulting photograph.
There are many slide scanners available which vary in price from a very low budget to very high price, as is the way with most things today and you actually do get what you pay for. If you do need to spend some extra money its possible to have a 35mm slide scanner, which has a built in drum that automatically feeds the slides into the scanner in almost the same way as an old slide projector would.
This type of auto-feed scanner would be worth the investment, should you've a large quantity of slides to scan. Another benefit of scanning those old slides is that you could then tweak the resulting images using program such as Photoshop, that is something that would have been unknown when the pictures were originally taken.
For this exact reason a slide scanner would be the best gift for any enthusiastic photographer who has shifted from a normal 35mm SLR to a latest Digital SLR camera and who's now comfortable using software to get just the appropriate picture.