In a dark room, set the projector and video camera up next to each other. You’ll need a film-reel projector, a digital video camera, and a clean white wall or a projector screen. “There is another way, but it’s a bit of a project,” says Elias Arias, Consumer Reports’ project leader for audio/video testing. This is an analog process: If you have 5 hours of film, the conversion will take 5 hours. These machines can be expensive-the Wolverine Data Film2Digital Moviemaker Pro, for example, costs about $400, though you might find other models for closer to $100.Īs the film runs, the new files are recorded to a small SDHC memory card, just like the one you find inside digital cameras. First, you can buy a film-to-video converter, which looks like a compact version of an old-fashioned reel-to-reel projector. The good news: “Film is a pretty sturdy medium,” says Ashley Blewer, an archivist, developer, and moving-image specialist, “so old home movies on 8 mm, 16 mm, or Super 8 reels are likely to be in decent shape.”ĭo it yourself. There are two DIY methods. Once you’ve identified the kind of film you have, you can turn it into a digital format-but it’s going to take some time and money. If the film strip is roughly two pencils wide-and on a reel that looks like the kind you might see in a documentary about the Golden Age of Hollywood-it’s probably 16 mm. Each 3-inch reel contains about 50 feet of film, good for only a few minutes of action.
“Regular 8 film is about as wide as a pencil on a small reel about 3 inches in diameter,” says Howard Besser, professor of cinema studies at New York University and founding director of the NYU Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program. If you have old reels of film in the attic packed in iconic yellow Kodak boxes, they’re probably Regular 8 or Super 8 film.
You might lose out on performing hand shadow puppets in the projector light with your new digital copies, but we’re pretty sure that’s better than losing out on all your memories.Although Kodak released 16 mm Kodachrome film in 1935, then 8 mm (aka Regular 8) film a year later, home movies didn’t really take off until the 1960s, when Kodak released Super 8. Once our scanning process is completed, we’ll give you back the originals and your new digital copies to share and enjoy with your family. All you need to do to get started is fill up our pre-paid roundtrip box with your collection of old 35mm slides and send it back. Our slide scanning and transfer service is fast, easy and transparent because we’ll send you updates throughout the entire conversion process. With social media being the vehicle to share memories, it only makes sense to convert your throwback slides to a more reliable and shareable digital format.Īfter all, the 35mm Carousel projector was our creation, and as a company dedicated to image excellence and capturing memorable moments, we feel it’s our duty to ensure that your slides live on – the way they were intended. Our qualified image experts can safely and accurately scan your slides, using cropping and high resolution techniques, ultimately converting (but more importantly preserving) them to CD, DVD, thumb drive or the cloud. Introducing digitization for your 35mm slides. But there is an answer to view and preserve them, and it doesn’t involve finding an old finicky projector. The longer you keep those slides tucked away in a shoebox in your attic, the more risk you have at losing the memories that they hold. Don’t believe us, then just try to watch this without feeling a lump in your throatįast forward a few decades and those memorable still images are now merely hidden promises held on 2x2 inch cardboard or plastic frames – unless you’ve got a projector laying around to bring them to life … not so likely.īut on top of that, your memories are simply fading. It was that emotional pull that made it such an iconic piece of film history. The end result was quality family time and a merry-go-round of treasured memories. But they weren’t always as easy as clicking the “Play Slideshow” button on a PowerPoint presentation.īack in the 60s, 70s and 80s, 35mm slideshows involved a bit more of a buildup, loading up the carousel with slides before cycling through them. From weddings and funerals to graduations and births, family slideshows have been a long standing tradition when the time is right.
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