Why You Need To Digitize Your Photos and 35mm Slides
Preserve fading images, protect your family history from disasters, and make sharing easy. High-quality scans keep your originals safe while everyone enjoys full copies.
Distribute to Relatives
Keep the originals and distribute the digitized copies. Gather photographs and 35mm slides from many relatives, then distribute the complete album back to them on a flash drive. No need to divide up the family photographs—everyone gets a full set of photos.
Disaster Preparedness
Scanning and saving the digitized images to CD or DVD provides compact storage. Make more than one disc and distribute to relatives. The more copies that exist, the more likely your pictures will survive any disaster. Discs stored in a safe location (e.g., a bank safe deposit box) add an extra layer of protection.
Preserve Image Quality Before the Original Deteriorates
The longer your slides and photos sit, the more likely they are to suffer from fading, scratches, loss, or damage. If a 35mm slide or photo is rapidly fading, digitize it now before you lose too much quality. Get a scan at the highest resolution and color depth possible and store it on archival-quality media. Plan to migrate the files every few years to new formats or media.
Reduce Handling Wear on Originals
Repeated handling can rub off penciled captions and introduce fingerprints or molds. Digitizing lets you enjoy and share copies while keeping originals safely stored.
