A Slide to Digital Photo Converter Makes Things Easier

Lots of people have old dusty boxes of slides and negatives sitting around, whether from Grandma’s photo collection, or an art studio’s files. If scanning them one at a time using a slide attachment doesn’t really appeal, you may have wondered if there’s an easier device to convert slides to digital images. The good news is that slide to digital photo converters do exist, and they can make your life a lot easier. These devices cost about a hundred dollars, and take up much less space than an old slide scanning lid attachment for your conventional scanner. They make converting negatives and slides to a digital format a lot simpler.

At about seven inches by four inches, this little device won’t take up much room on your desk. You attach it to your computer via USB, and place your negatives or slides into the attached tray. The press of a button scans the images at a resolution as high as 1800 dpi. Included software lets you edit and adjust the digitized image. Of course, if you have a software package you prefer for image editing, the file can always be imported into this program instead.

The trays included in this kind of scanner allow you to position negatives precisely, without the guesswork of doing it one by one on a regular scanner, or the expense of sending slides to a service to be converted. The quality is higher than older home methods as well, with ten bits per color channel and a 5MP CMOS sensor. Included TWAIN drivers make it easy to use a slide to digital photo converter with high end professional image programs like Photoshop.

If you’ve been looking for a way to get your old photos online, or to print them more easily, a slide to digital photo converter could be the way to go. It can handle color or black and white slides, and also deals effectively with negatives. There’s no need to resort to expensive professional services to deal with large quantities of old photos. You can now easily burn them to disc or upload them to a photo sharing account, such as Flickr, without trouble. Preserve your memories, and get rid of the old slide projector, by transferring those photos to a digital format. Extra trays are available if you need them, for setting up slides and negatives to be batch scanned.