Slide Scanners - Digitizing Your Memories

Photographic slides have been used extensively over the years to display interesting photos and information through a projector.  They can provide great detail and color.  However these slides are difficult to store, maintain and organize.  Fortunately there are some great slide scanners available to enable you to turn your photographic slides into compact digital format.  We’ll discuss these devices further.

A slide scanner is a device which illuminates the slide and then projects the image on to a digital scanning element which converts the image to a digital photographic format like .jpeg or .gif. 

There are some significant advantages to scanning your slides in this manner.  A traditional photographic slide tends to degrade over time and can be difficult to store.  More importantly slides are also difficult to categorize, organize, and retrieve.

However by digitizing your slides through a slide scanner, the files can be organized in a variety of means.  You can name and organize your slide image files according to things like subject, date, or other categories.

Storing and retrieving a large number of slides is very easy and convenient.  So there are some appealing benefits to doing so.

Slide scanners are produced in a variety of types and they have different features.  Some slide scanners are equipped with mechanisms which can feed, illuminate and scan the slides very quickly and efficiently.

The simplest type of slide scanner has a flatbed and you must manually place the slide there in order to image it.  Once the slide has been scanned and digitized, the file is normally transferred to a computer through a cable connection.

Or the file can be stored on a removable type of device like an SD card or USB drive.  Many slide scanners also include a convenient program to assist you in storing and organizing your images.

These programs may have enhancement programs to color correct the image or otherwise improve it electronically.  In this way you can better organize your slides while improving their color and detail.

In addition the image won’t degrade over time and be available to you quickly and easily.  You can obtain much more information on slide scanners by visiting some of the larger websites which offer these kinds of products.  You’ll find a great deal of helpful information there including features, specs, benefits and reviews.

In this way you can find the best slide scanner for your particular needs and budget.