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35mm Photo Slides


The 3 most common film formats that we at MontrealHomeMovies.com convert to digital are – 35mm and 120mm Slides, 35mm and 120mm Negatives. Printed photographs of any size.

We use only the highest quality Canon scanners and usually scan to 1200 dpi (suitable to reprint an 8×10 image). Of course we can scan at higher resolutions upon request.

Here are a few advantages to converting your Slide Film, Negatives and Photographs to a digital format like Jpeg, Tiff or PSD

  • Image quality fades over time and each one is individually edited and enhanced using Adobe Photo Shop and other techniques, to get the best possible result. All slides are air brushed prior to scanning, to remove dust and hairs.
  • Portability. Digital devices like the portable hard drives are easy to carry with you and easy to share. In fact the greatest use recently has been for use on Facebook and MySpace.
  • Your photos are organized and accessible. Using Window 7 you can tag and search photos in seconds.
  • By using a number of FREE online photo players you can store, change and share you images. Download A free software download from Google. Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organized.
  • Desktop Computers, laptops and iPods have tons of storage capability. Some of the newest iPods and the new iPad can hold as much as 5,000 photos., Save shelf and desk space by going digital.
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35mm Slides.

35mm film gauge most commonly used for both still photography and motion pictures, and remains relatively unchanged since its introduction in 1892 by William Dickson and Thomas Edison, using film stock supplied by George Eastman. The photographic film is cut into strips 1 3/8 inches or 35 mm wide — hence the name. The standard negative pulldown is four perforations per frame along both edges, which makes for exactly 16 frames per foot.

Slides are still generally preferred by professionals and many amateurs when working with traditional film. Slides are often sharper and have better colour reproduction. Generally, slides have a longer life span than colour prints.

Direct positive slide film is less forgiving of exposure errors than the negative – print – and development process chain. With negatives, the overall value may be sensed after processing and the exposure of the positive image controlled to compensate. The simplest point and shoot and disposable cameras do not even control exposure, a demonstration of the wide exposure latitude of the processes. It is also more cumbersome to display if only a few images are to be shown, although small battery powered direct viewers are available and suitable for use by one or two viewers.

A slide is a special type of transparency intended to be projected onto a screen using a slide projector. This allows the photograph to be viewed by a room-full of people at the same time. Slides were at one time an important medium for presentations, but LCD projectors, though inferior in resolution and color reproduction, have largely replaced traditional slide projectors for this purpose.

The most common form of modern slide is the 35mm slide, essentially a positive-image printing onto the standard 35mm film used in the movie industry, then placed inside a cardboard or plastic shell. Older projectors used a sliding mechanism to manually pull the transparency out of the side of the machine, where it could be replaced by the next image, and it is from this that we get the name “slide”. Modern projectors typically use a carousel that holds a large number of slides, and viewed by a mechanism that automatically pulls a single slide out of the carousel and places it in front of the lamp.

Slide frames, 1940 (metal) to 1985 (plastic)
Slide archive box

120mm Slides

Same as 35mm but obivously larger in size. Used mainly by professional photographers. Click on the photo to see an enlargement.

Product Summary:
At Montreal Home Movies, we are you number 1 option for converting your old 35mm photo slides to digital images. With the advent of LCD projectors, your 35mm photo slides are becoming ever more obsolete. Why not bring them to us and have them converted on to your laptop or a data disk in any format you wish? Please visit our export section for all your options.
Product Description:
A slide is a specially mounted individual transparency intended for projection onto a screen using a slide projector. The most common form is the 35mm slide, placed inside a cardboard or plastic shell for projection. The 35mm film gauge is most commonly used for both still photography and motion pictures. It remains relatively unchanged since its introduction in 1892 by William Dickson and Thomas Edison, using film stock supplied by George Eastman. The photographic film is cut into strips of one 35mm (or 3/8 inches). The standard negative pull down is four perforations per frame along both edges, which makes for exactly 16 frames per foot. Slides are still generally preferred by professionals and many amateurs when working with traditional film. Slides are often sharper and have better colour reproduction. Generally, slides have a longer life span than colour prints. Direct positive slide film is less forgiving of exposure errors than the negative – print – and development process chain. With negatives, the overall value may be sensed after processing and the exposure of the positive image controlled to compensate. The simplest point and shoot disposable cameras do not even control exposure, a demonstration of the wide exposure latitude of the processes. It is also more cumbersome to display if only a few images are to be shown, although small battery powered direct viewers are available and suitable for use by one or two viewers. A slide is a special type of transparency intended to be projected onto a screen using a slide projector. This allows the photograph to be viewed by a room-full of people at the same time. Slides were at one time an important medium for presentations, but LCD projectors, though inferior in resolution and color reproduction, have largely replaced traditional slide projectors for this purpose. The most common form of modern slide is the 35mm slide, essentially a positive-image printing onto the standard 35mm film used in the movie industry, then placed inside a cardboard or plastic shell. Older projectors used a sliding mechanism to manually pull the transparency out of the side of the machine, where it could be replaced by the next image, and it is from this that we get the name “slide”. Modern projectors typically use a carousel that holds a large number of slides, and viewed by a mechanism that automatically pulls a single slide out of the carousel and places it in front of the lamp.

With the advent of digital projectors and digital viewing mechanisms, we at Montreal Home Movies can convert your 35mm slide to a digital format of your choosing. The most common formats are 35mm to JPEG, 35mm to Tiff, and 35mm to PSD. The distinct advantages of digitizing your 35mm slides is accessibility and storage capacity. Whether it be your laptop, desktop, iPhone, iPod, or any other storage device you use on a daily basis, there exists today the capacity to store thousands of pictures available at the touch of your finger. Furthermore, storage space and accessibility are constantly increasing. There exists today a number of free online photo players where you can store, organize, edit and share your images. Picasa is the most notable example of a program that gives you all these features. The ever growing capacity of digital devices gives you all the incentive you need to bring in your old 35mm slides to us at Montreal Home Movies. We can upload your 35mm slides directly to your hard drive, memory stick, or onto a DVD data disc. We use only the highest quality Canon scanners and usually scan to 1200dpi (suitable to reprint an 8×10 image). Of course we can scan at higher resolutions upon request. To learn more about how we digitize your old 35mm slides, please see our remastering section.

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