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The above image is a snapshot of what downtown Los Angeles looks like now, but it didn’t always look this way. Contrasting old photos against the current skyline of a metropolitan landscape is a favorite use for historical photos. The problem is finding point of view pictures that can be compared.
 
If there is a comparable image of the above street of Los Angeles from 1984, it is likely in a 33 mm film slide. Scanners were only a makeshift solution. Until recently, owners of heritage collections of family legacy film slides were anticipating better technology yet the solution eluded them.
 
Digital media software can make T-shirts or mugs out of photos, make slideshows and format them into films, but first the media must be available. The film slide scanner provides the media transmission technology necessary for this purpose. Features of the newest film slide scanners will vary by price and resolution.
 
This gives way to an entire new market of micro imagery. Laptop or desktop technology allows USB port connections that capture negatives and slide frames via electronic upload. Most film slide scanners come with software to enhance to edit slide features for optimum digitalization. The micro photographer can find a way to transpose newly acquired media to a unique film capture.
 
The art of scanning lost 35 mm film slides will allow certain eras and period in history to be archived and stored. Many a photographer has been struck by catastrophe and precious slides stored in boxes ruined. A quality rainy day project for the microstock photographer would be to scan slides and store them on redundant folders online.
 
Layering scanned film slides for a nostalgic effect could make an entire new micro career out of film slide captures. Getting the best image and focused array of pixels per negative frame or film slide is something a photographer can do hundreds of times well, and something an amateur might give up on by the dozenth slide. these kinds of image files are a good opportunity to brush up those layering and painting skills.
 
Many people need their boxes of film slides processed into digital images, yet don’t have the time. Offering a service whereby the 35mm or 4 by 6 inche snapshot film or negatives are scanned might be a profitable revenue stream with the right equipment.
 
For micro stock gallery submission and layered effects inside a digital image manipulation software, film slide scanning could provide a lot of new image file product without turning one dial on your camera. No hot shoe management, no wind taming during a close study, just working with images.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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