The popular photography blog PetaPixel posted a story today from Gizmodo about a huge photo archiving and sharing project sure to get some attention. It seems Steve Lundeen was so impressed by his father-in-laws lifetime photo collection, that he set about doing the laborious task of digitizing photos and sharing via Flickr. Mr. Lundeen is [...]

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Once you have decided to scan your photos so you have digital copies of them, there are a few ways to go about doing so. You’ll need to consider the pros and cons of each method to decide which method best meets your needs. In-Store Kiosk Many stores that sell photo prints have in-store kiosks [...]

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Many adults of the baby boomer or older generation have boxes of photos that they rarely flip through. The photos remain inaccessible and are difficult to sort through and find what they are looking for. Next time you need a gift for your parents, consider digitizing the photos so they can view them on a [...]

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Photographic slides are the once-popular image-producing films that require the aid of a projector in order to properly view the images. Photographers and filmmakers of all skill levels are no strangers to these films because of their ability to produce quality images, but as advances in photo technology continue, slides have become obsolete, leaving collectors [...]

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Most people know that their memory deteriorates with age; what they don’t know is that their memories deteriorate with age, too, especially if those memories are saved on VHS tape. VHS tapes start to deteriorate after about 10 years. Once you hit the 20-year mark, your ability to view tapes could be seriously affected. Factor [...]

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Your photos are some of the best treasures that you have. Old photos from days gone by allow you to remember the good times — to recall the people who have gone before you, and to reminisce about the memories you’ve accumulated throughout your life. The scary reality of photographs is they are susceptible to [...]

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FotoBridge – Photo Scanning Services. Features, reviews, ratings. FotoBridge.com was recently awarded “BEST OF” honors for photo scanning services by one of the web’s newest and increasingly trusted comparison search sites. Unlike “best of” services that are merely veiled paid advertisements, …FindTheBest.com is an unbiased, fact-driven comparison engine. Hailed by The New York Times, TechCrunch, [...]

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Unlike film, video tape tends to deteriorate quite quickly. It’s likely that tapes older than 10 years have begun to deteriorate and beyond 20 years many tapes are often compromised in some way, typically with degraded image and color quality. There is little difference between analog video tape and digital video tape when it comes [...]

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About the only downside to digitizing photos from your old collection is the time it takes to get the job done. But it’s well worth the effort because once its complete, those old photos can be preserved forever, copied, edited, shared and combined with your digital photo collection as if they were born-digital images. And [...]

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If your lucky, some of your most treasured memories have been captured and saved on a variety of mediums over the decades. Perhaps some of that rare imagery is on old Kodachrome slides, packed away in photo albums or stored on 8mm film reels. Scanning photos to digitally preserve and share online is gaining popularity as scanners [...]

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