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120mm photo slides are the same as the 35mm except larger in size. Compared to 35mm, 120mm (or medium format) uses 3 to 4 times as much film. This allows for smoother gradations, finer detail, and less apparent grain. 120mm are used mainly by professional photographers. Slides are still popular today and are still generally preferred by professionals and many amateurs in traditional film because they’re often sharper, have better color reproduction, and they have a longer life span than color 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. Slides are composed of a special type of transparency intended to be projected onto a screen using a slide projector. The photograph will be viewed by everyone in a room, as it was intended. Slides were at one time an important medium for presentations; however, LCD monitors have largely replaced traditional slide projectors.

With the advent of digital projectors and digital viewing mechanisms, we at Montreal Home Movies can convert your 120mm slide to a digital format of your choosing. The most commonly requested formats we get are 120mm to JPEG, 120mm to Tiff, and 120mm to PSD. The advantages of digitizing your 120mm slides are accessibility and storage capacity. Whether on your laptop, desktop, iPod or any other personal storage device you use on a daily basis, there exists today the capacity to store thousands of pictures, and all are readily available to view. Picasa is an example of the many free online photo players where you can store, organize, edit and share your images. At Montreal Home Movies, we can upload 120mm photo slides 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 120mm photo slides, please see our remastering section.

In addition to converting your 120mm photo slides to digital formats, we can also give you the option of having your slides presented in a digital slide show on the medium of your choosing, such as PowerPoint and Flash. To see all your additional 120mm photo slide options, please see our export section.