Digital Conversion Services – In this digital age with technology rapidly evolving, it’s important to digitise your old photo albums to preserve your memories so they can live on for future generations to enjoy.
It’s relatively easy since smartphones and digital cameras such as Canon and Nikon have such great qualities but we’re here to tell you the best way we’d advise you to go about it!
A few things to note before moving forward is there may be some issues with your old media but we’ll tell you how some things can be fixed and resolved to an extent. What is digital conversion service? It’ seems more obvious that it really is.
The issues and our tips on digitising may differ depending on the type of media.
Dust can accumulate and affect the quality as well as conceal the images. This can be rectified by gently using an unutilised powder brush or cloths that won’t scratch the material. Please use gloves whilst handling your old media to avoid touching them with your bare hands.
Mould, discolouration, and/or curved or broken mounts. If you’d like to clean your slides, we’d advise using compressed air. Use gloves while handling to avoid touching the film with your bare hands. Most digital conversion services offer solutions for issues like mould or decay.
Starting off with photos, we recommend using a flatbed scanner. The most common resolution we scan is 600 DPI but it could be more or less depending on the size of the photograph of course. It may be worth approaching a digital conversion service for advice.
Before scanning, use storage trays to keep the slides in place while you scan. We also suggest that you employ a flatbed scanner that’s adaptable for slides (basically a scanner where the light can shine through the slide). The typical ideal resolution for slides is about 1600 DPI but obviously can be higher if you are looking for something more detailed.
We see this so many times. Images can be tricky to remove without causing damage. If you’re worried about causing damage, it is worth contacting a digital conversion service and leave it to the professionals. Crisp and fragile pages that fall apart and sometimes pages get stuck, Images often fall out. Remember to handle them on all occasions with the utmost of care and hold them with both hands carefully also making sure to support the binding too! Be careful with the pages especially if they’re old and delicate. Resolutions will vary according to how large or small the images in the photo album are at the end of the day.
If you have any questions whatsoever, be it about video conversion or in relation to VHS conversion service perhaps or about another type of format, give us a call and our team at Supaphoto will do their very best to help you – rest assured!
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