Why A Film Scanner Produces Much Better Results Than a Flatbed Scanner

One of our clients recently came to us with a collection of 35 mm film slides that she had collected as part of a family history project. These film strips were of great importance to her, as you can imagine and ranged in age from almost 100 years old to just one year old. Pictures of her family before they left their country of origin to the most recent family reunion.

The condition of the film slides were varied, some were terribly grainy with others suffering from old age, water damage and scratches. However, they were the negatives of many wonderful photographs full of special family memories.

Our customer had attempted to use her flatbed scanner to work on the slides but when it came to cropping and making digital repairs, it just wasn’t up to the job. It was however, the perfect job for a professional film scanner machine.

We heard reports that her experience with the flatbed scanner was very limited. In fact, she even described it as a dinosaur when it came to producing the results that she needed with her film negatives. The results were very low level without much colour, very grainy and frankly, very disappointing.

Our professional film scanner is designed to turn 35mm slides into photographs that will give your children and family insight into how things used to be. They’ll be amazed that once, yes, all that time ago, you really did look like that! But mind out, as you’ll never live down the teasing that you’ll get when they find out that you wore purple corduroy flares in the 70’s.

Call us today to scan your 35mm slides and take your family on a journey back in time to the days before the internet, when people spent more time together and took far more family picnics. We can fix graininess and repair other minor flaws. You could even use these to build a printed photo album.

Call us now to get started.