How can old photos be digitized?
If you want to bring your old analog photos in your computer, you will find several possibilites, which mainly differ in quality. A flatbed scanner belongs to the base equipment of a computer user. The price of flatbed scanners starts below 50 €. The resolution often reaches several thousends of dpi. With such scanners color prints may be digitized in good quality. You can expect a much better quality if you don’t scan the color prints but the negatives or slides directly. In order to to this you need a particular scanner which can process not only reflective material like paper prints but also transmittive films. Good flatbed scanners have a transparency unit included which incorporates a second light source. Such scanners can digitize both prints and negatives and slides. The scan quality for film material, however, still lacks in spite of a high scan resolution, since these flatbed scanners don’t have a high-class optics and their density range is too small. If you demand optimal qu
