Before You Buy - What to Look For in a Photo Slide Scanner

If you are looking to digitize your old memories by transferring all your old photographs on the Computer, and maybe playing with them in Photoshop, you need to invest in a good scanner. While the conventional scanners you see on Computer desks everywhere (i.e., flatbed scanner) are great if you have just a dozen or so photographs to scan, it you are serious about digitizing and preserving all your old memories handed down through generations (which can amount to literally 10,000s of photographs), you would want to invest in a photo slide scanner.

Photo slide scanners can set you back by anything from 0 to 00. You might've seen the more expensive variety at your workplace or in your school/college. These usually have multiple attachMents to help scan hundreds of photos or docuMents at a time and can be a huge time saver in large settings. For the purpose of scanning old family photographs, however, an entry level photo slide scanner would do.

Where photo slide scanners really shine is in their image scan quality. While regular flatbed scanners will give you a grainy, blurry scan (not to mention that it'll take ages to scan a photograph), these scanners will give you a much higher quality, almost as if the photo was taken directly through a digital camera.

A very important tip to keep in mind when you go to purchase your photo slide scanner is to make sure that whatever model you choose supports the slide size that you will be scanning. If the scanner cannot accommodate your photographs, it wouldn't make any sense to buy it, for obvious reasons. Most scanners will have a list of what they support, and while you can still go ahead and scan an unsupported slide, you will get much lower quality, making the enTire investment useless.

If you are serious about preserving your memories and have a huge library of pictures to scan, investing in a photo slide scanner is the smartest way to go about it. You'll save tons of time while getting fabulous scan quality.

Before You Buy - What to Look For in a Photo Slide Scanner

Before You Buy - What to Look For in a Photo Slide Scanner

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Before You Buy - What to Look For in a Photo Slide Scanner