21st Century Digital Mediums
If you have preserved your old 35mm film this long, then it will probably remain in good condition for the forseeable future. However, just because something is stable and durable, doesn’t mean it is a good decision to keep things as is. That’s because technology is rapidly advancing the picture and video industries, and consumers are increasingly playing catch-up with mainstream digital trends. For example, many people have put off learning how to use the Internet, let alone setting up service at home.
One way to usher in the digital technology age is to use “35mm to hard drive” software to transfer film to a personal computer. Though PCs suffer the same obsolescence as other technologies, you can back up your film to the hard drive in the event that a roll gets damaged or destroyed. But the transference doesn’t stop there. If you want to share film footage with family and friends, you can upload the transferred video to the Internet or send it as an attachment to other email addresses. So in addition to backing up your footage, you can now put it to use, quickly and easily using this conversion and transfer software.
Slide projectors were once all the rave during last century. Today, any personal laptop computer has the software to create a slide presentation. Further, mobile computers commonly feature a port that connects to larger TV screens and standalone projectors. Using this software, with the necessary scanning equipment, you can use 35mm slide transfer software to put files on the hard drive. The benefit of putting slides on the computer is that, you can take the content just about anywhere. You also don’t have to worry about damaging the slide film.
Compact discs are not widely used as a medium for listening to music as they once were. However, CDs are still a reliable storage medium. You can scan Slides to CD to be handed out to family and friends. Many set top DVD players can play CDs, showing pictures from your slides on the household TV. Students and businesses can transfer professional slides to CD and hand them out as a presentation to a group of people. Compact discs are relatively cheap. Even movie theaters are converting from 35mm film medium to digital because it’s just all around cheaper and faster to use.
REFERENCES:
Yahoo! Finance: Digital cinema to eclipse 35mm film by 2012 in UK; http://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/Digital-cinema-eclipse-35mm-ani-3152657994.html?x=0
