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The recent announcement by Eastman Kodak of the retirement of its Kodachrome Film after a 74-year production run is likely to drive interest in USB Film Scanners.
As the inevitable drive towards digital steamrolls forward many will lament the passing of the Kodak’s classic film medium. For many there is a much stronger, even emotional bond between their old 35mm camera, their collection of slides, pictures and negatives than there ever will be with digital technology.
Whilst digital technology has and continues to deliver many benefits the passing of Kodachrome film is a sad but inevitable loss. The demise of Kodak’s Kodachrome Film may see a clamour to bulk buy the last stocks before production ceases later this year. It’s also expected that the news will encourage people to think about how to digitise and protect their current collection of images for the future generatio.
USB 35mm film and 35mm slide scanners have recently become far more affordable without any compromise on quality. These handy bits of kit allow you to “scan” you negatives and slides and store the scanned image onto a memory card or directly to a PC connected via USB. Recent versions have a screen built into the scanner so you can use them without being connected to a PC.
The captured digital image can then be enhanced, tweaked or edited as you see fit using any of the popular image editing suites on the market. Of course once you have digitised your collection of slides and negatives its then easy to post these onto blogs, web sites, social forums etc or to email them to friends and family.
More fundamentally though by transferring the your images to you PC you can, providing you are diligent with your backup routine (to protect yourself in the event of any hard drive failure) ensure you have your images for future generations
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