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35mm Film Slide Scanners – Preserve Important Memories

35mm slides were great. The colors as well as the convenience of viewing enlarged images on a slide projector made it very easy to share images with friends and family. It was also great for presentations. However we are now in the digital age and the traditional type of film technology has been largely replaced. In addition the slides we've taken and want to preserve can deteriorate over time and are much more difficult to display. So converting them to digital images through 35mm film slide scanners is definitely the way to go. Here are some details.

A 35mm film slide scanner can load a slide and then scan and convert it into a digital image. Some scanners can automatically load the slides and then scan them very quickly. This is great if you have a lot of slides you need to preserve and protect. But if you have less slides, then it is usually sufficient to just scan them on a flatbed scanner.

These scanners do come available in a wide variety of styles and types and can range is price from around $50 to $150. However they all do approximately the same thing which is to illuminate and then scan the image from the slide into a digital format. These scanners have a light source and a digital scanning element which can take the image and convert it into a digital format like .jpg or .tif.

Once the slide has been scanned and the image file created, these scanners connect directly to a memory card or flash drive such that the image files can be stored there. In this way, the scanner doesn't have to be connected to a computer. However as an alternative some of the scanners have cable which can run from the scanner to the USB port on the computer so that the image files can be transferred quickly and reliably.

These scanners are designed to scan the slides in very high definition. The image files then preserve the images on the slides and prevent further degradation. One of the drawbacks of the old 35mm slides is that it was a hassle to store and organize all the images you might have.

In may cases you'd have to use a light tray to illuminate the slides so that you knew what information was there. However once you scan these slides, the image files can be tagged, organized, and easily stored for quick retrieval at any time. This is a significant improvement over what used to be done and enables a great many images which were on the slides to be preserved and cataloged.

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Are there speakers or microphones put in the bases during a baseball game?

anytime someone slides in or gets tagged on a base, I can hear the loud noise on tv of the foot or body or glove hitting the bag. It sounds like the camera people put microphones in them. Why do they do this? Do they really do this?
I noticed that its been like this for several years.

Not every game. A regional network like the Yankees' YES network for example won't do it cause they have games everyday. But a station like FOX or ESPN who has 1 or 2 games a week which are big nationally televised games will have added sound effects. I've heard of mics in the bases as well as the walls.