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Easily Digitize Your Childhood Memories Trapped in Film With Smooth Photo Scanning Written by: Brandon Harris, Smooth Photo Scanning Services
Nostalgia is the feeling of longing for one’s home. It is a yearning for the past, usually for a time with sentimental value. It is triggered by something that brings back memories. Going through old photographs is a great way to relive your nostalgia.
Families used 8mm film to record their everyday routines and capture special moments as early as the 1930s. There’s a high possibility that some of your family’s history has been preserved on old film reels. However, film has been an outdated technology for several decades, so watching them can be difficult.
Another issue is that film reels deteriorate over time and continue to fade away with each passing day. At the same time, the current trend is to stream movies online and upload photos directly from your phone to Facebook. Thus the need for physical film is becoming obsolete.
You may have stacks of old slides and negatives from long-lost photographs stored in the attic or garage. While not as simple as scanning old photos, digitizing film saves family history from the obsolete format and allows you to share those recovered memories easily. So, what are you thinking of doing now?
Below are the top 7 reasons you should use picture digitizing and film-to-digital services from Smooth Photo Scanning:
1. Saving Films From Being Destroyed!
Plastic, vinyl, and metal make videotapes, photos, and other film formats. These substances are extremely vulnerable to damage. The various types of movie films converted by trained professionals include 8mm film, Super8 film, and 16mm film. Ideally, a frame-by-frame capture method is used to scan movie film to produce a high quality, flicker-free viewing experience.
Keeping your memories solely in physical form risks your valuable legacy. So to digitize various types of film, Smooth Photo Scanning uses different film scanners. Slides and negatives are typically scanned using Digital ICE technology on specialized transparency flat-bed scanners or Nikon Coolscan scanners.
2. To Protect The Photos In Their Original Form
You would see frames of images if you looked at a negative film strip or a movie film reel. What makes up these images? Chemicals and dyes in the film make up the camera’s subject and scenery. These dyes fade from the film over time, dulling the once vibrant coloring. The sooner you send in your negatives and film for digital conversion, the better the results.
At Smooth Photo Scanning, before scanning each transparency, we pre-scan it with infrared light to identify any dust particles or minor scratches. While scanning, the detected defects are corrected. Color is also fixed, grain noise is reduced, and the contrast and exposure are optimized for each slide using Digital ICE.
3. It Conserves Space
We help you to save space by scanning and transferring your memories to digital! Many people have nooks and crannies dedicated to old photos and videos when that space could be used for coat closets or play areas. Once the digitizing process is complete, you can store your history on a DVD, hard drive, or cloud.
4. Saving cost on equipment
Did you know that finding and purchasing a VHS player is more expensive than transferring nearly ten tapes to DVD? Have you ever tried to buy a movie projector? With our VHS to digital service and photo scanning service, we help you save cost on the equipment and the copious amount of time needed to convert your old movies and pictures to digital. Finding digitized images and videos on your smart device will be much easier than hooking up machinery and fiddling with settings to reminisce.
5. Simplifies Organization
Having all of your photos and images on your desktop makes organizing so much easier! You need not be worried about someone tampering with your photos and destroying your current order, or putting a video tape in the wrong labeled sleeve. Instead, you can have as many digital folders and subfolders as you want. You can also use our slide scanning service, which helps you organize each image according to your needs.
6. Excellent Editing Options
Smooth Photo Scanning’s trained professionals help you to truly personalize your images and videos! We use a frame-by-frame film transfer technique for 8mm and 16mm film, in which each individual frame is scanned as its own greater image using a progressive scan capture system.
The scanned film images are then edited with professional software and assembled into a seamless motion picture. The frame-by-frame method of transferring film to digital or DVD provides a superior, accurate, and flicker-free viewing experience.
7. Your Film Is Worthwhile.
Your memories happened only once, and the ones captured by the almighty camera should last forever. So for special moments, you should also choose the best picture digitizing service and film to digital service. We aspire to serve you quality scanning and converting results at affordable rates in the given time.
Smooth Photo Scanning is the industry’s best conversion service provider. We know what it takes to take your memories to the next level after 25 years of experience. Not only do we digitize your film, but we also provide various services to enhance your legacies, such as slide scanning services, photo scanning services, cloud storage services, and much more. You name it, and we can digitize it!
My father has been in the document scanning industry for as long as I can remember. I worked for his company Smooth Solutions, Inc. during summer breaks growing up and for a couple years after college. Wanting to venture off on my own, I gained experience in several careers including wholesale seafood sales as well as owning and operating a bakery for several years. When my father approached me with the opportunity to expand upon his already successful business by providing high quality, professional scanning services to the general public, I jumped on board. From personal experience, I recognize how important it is for most people to have their family memorabilia preserved for future generations and I want to be a part of helping others do that.