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Convert Photo Slides to Digital
EachMoment converts every type of photo slide to digital. Store them on your choice USB memory stick, DVD, or online album.
This includes 35mm as well as more rare types like 126, 127, 127 Super Slide, 120 and 110.
Our Memory Box system is the safest way to digitise slides in the UK.
• Free collection and re-delivery by the UK’s most secure courier.
• Free cleaning and restoration by our team of specialists.
• Free crush-proof Memory Box.
Why Digitising Your Slides is Important
Analogue Slides |
Digital Slides |
|---|---|
| They take up room in the house and can feel messy. Just more stuff to dust! | Fit in the palm of your hand. Once your slides are digitised, you’re free to make more space in your home. |
| Often unviewable and impossible to share. With projectors becoming rare and unreliable, cumbersome methods such as light boxes or loupes are increasingly the only analogue way to view slides. | Easily enjoyed on smartphone, computer, or smart TV. Now you can make slideshows on any digital device and instantly share them with loved ones. Put them onto digital picture frames; make heartwarming screensavers; or laugh and cry with some family show-and-tell. |
| Cannot keep your memories safe. Slides are easily lost in the event of household accidents such as fire or flood. They’re often the only copy of important family history. If they’re lost, they’re lost forever. | Ultimate protection for your memories. Now you can make endless backups of your family history. Your digital slides can be stored in the cloud, just like digital photos that you take on your phone or camera. This means that your memories are protected no matter what. |
| Actively puts your memories in danger — slides are deteriorating. As slides age, they will perish of fading, mould, and other issues. The memories they depict will be lost forever. Sadly this is not a question of if but when. | Keeps your memories safe forever — memories cannot degrade when they’re digital. They’ll be accessible a hundred years from now, and will look as good as the day they’re digitised! |
Analogue Slides
- They take up room in the house and can feel messy. Just more stuff to dust!
- Often unviewable and impossible to share. With projectors becoming rare and unreliable, cumbersome methods such as light boxes or loupes are increasingly the only analogue way to view slides.
- Cannot keep your memories safe. Slides are easily lost in the event of household accidents such as fire or flood. They’re often the only copy of important family history. If they’re lost, they’re lost forever.
- Actively puts your memories in danger — slides are deteriorating. As slides age, they will perish of fading, mould, and other issues. The memories they depict will be lost forever. Sadly this is not a question of if but when.
Digital Slides
- Fit in the palm of your hand. Once your slides are digitised, you’re free to make more space in your home.
- Easily enjoyed on smartphone, computer, or smart TV. Now you can make slideshows on any digital device and instantly share them with loved ones. Put them onto digital picture frames; make heartwarming screensavers; or laugh and cry with some family show-and-tell.
- Ultimate protection for your memories. Now you can make endless backups of your family history. Your digital slides can be stored in the cloud, just like digital photos that you take on your phone or camera. This means that your memories are protected no matter what.
- Keeps your memories safe forever — memories cannot degrade when they’re digital. They’ll be accessible a hundred years from now, and will look as good as the day they’re digitis
How to convert photo slides to digital
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Types of Photo Slide
“They take every format. I’d highly recommend.” — Chris P
Not sure what type of slide you have? If you’re curious, you can use our guide below to identify them. But just so you know, unlike most slide to digital converter companies, we have the expertise and industry-leading equipment to digitise any type of slide.
35mm Slide
Sometimes referred to as a 35mm transparency or more rarely a 35mm reversal film, this is very much the standard slide and the type that comes through our laboratory’s doors most often.
You can identify a 35mm slide by its 2″ x 2″ frame or ‘mount’ — made of cardboard or plastic — and its 24mm x 36mm film.
Why is it called a 35mm slide if none of the measurements above equal 35mm? Good question. It’s because the slides are made from a roll of 35mm film, which is just one of the standard sizes for film.
Fun fact: the image to the left was taken on a film camera by EachMoment’s talented Head of Photography — then digitised by her!
35mm Slide
Sometimes referred to as a 35mm transparency or more rarely a 35mm reversal film, this is very much the standard slide and the type that comes through our laboratory’s doors most often.
You can identify a 35mm slide by its 2″ x 2″ frame or ‘mount’ — made of cardboard or plastic — and its 24mm x 36mm film.
Why is it called a 35mm slide if none of the measurements above equal 35mm? Good question. It’s because the slides are made from a roll of 35mm film, which is just one of the standard sizes for film.
Fun fact: the image to the left was taken on a film camera by EachMoment’s talented Head of Photography — then digitised by her!
35mm Half-Frame Slide
The 35mm half-frame slide was designed to allow photographers twice the number of photos on a single roll of film.
Like the full-frame slide, you can identify it by it’s 2″ x 2″ mount. However, the film is size is only 18mm x 24mm.
35mm Half-Frame Slide
The 35mm half-frame slide was designed to allow photographers twice the number of photos on a single roll of film.
Like the full-frame slide, you can identify it by it’s 2″ x 2″ mount. However, the film is size is only 18mm x 24mm.
126 Slide
Sometimes referred to as an Instamatic slide due to Kodak’s popular Instamatic camera line.
You can tell a 126 film slide by its 2″ x 2″ plastic mount and its 28mm x 28mm film.
Nerd fact: the 126 is so named because it was intended to have 26mm x 26mm film size. However, it ended up being 2mm x 2mm larger. This was to allow a margin of error when cutting the film into frames and mounting it to be a slide.
126 Slide
Sometimes referred to as an Instamatic slide due to Kodak’s popular Instamatic camera line.
You can tell a 126 film slide by its 2″ x 2″ plastic mount and its 28mm x 28mm film.
Nerd fact: the 126 is so named because it was intended to have 26mm x 26mm film size. However, it ended up being 2mm x 2mm larger. This was to allow a margin of error when cutting the film into frames and mounting it to be a slide.
127 Slide
You’d be forgiven for thinking the 127 is some kind of sequel to the 126. But Kodak actually produced this type of slide from 1912 all the way through to 1995, whereas the 126 was introduced in 1963.
You can identify a 127 slide by its 2″ x 2″ mount and it’s large 40mm x 40mm film size.
127 Slide
You’d be forgiven for thinking the 127 is some kind of sequel to the 126. But Kodak actually produced this type of slide from 1912 all the way through to 1995, whereas the 126 was introduced in 1963.
You can identify a 127 slide by its 2″ x 2″ mount and it’s large 40mm x 40mm film size.
127 “Super Slide”
These distinctive slides are immediately identifiable by their massive 40mm x 40mm film size.
They were mostly sold as novelty to tourists or to be used a kind of postcard.
They were rarely used for personal memories but they can have historical value. You therefore may still wish to consider digitising any Super Slides you may have.
127 “Super Slide”
These distinctive slides are immediately identifiable by their massive 40mm x 40mm film size.
They were mostly sold as novelty to tourists or to be used a kind of postcard.
They were rarely used for personal memories but they can have historical value. You therefore may still wish to consider digitising any Super Slides you may have.
110 Slide & 110 “Pocket Slide”
This slide format is even smaller than the 126. It’s smaller image size makes it challenging to scan at a a high-resolution but EachMoment has the equipment and expertise to do it.
You can immediately recognise the typical 110 by its tiny 13mm x 17mm film, which set within the standard 2″ x 2″ mount looks even smaller than it is.
Perhaps this contrast accounts for the existence of its somewhat rare cousin: the 110 “Pocket Slide”, as it is sometimes known. You can identify the Pocket Slide by its unusual 1″ x 1″ mount.
A Brief History of Photo Slides
Slides are some of the earliest commercially successful photographic films. Some colour photography slides were introduced as early as 1907 and received widespread demand by the 1930s.
Slides and slide projectors revolutionised collective engagement in photography and film, enabling large audiences to view images and films together at the same time.
By the seventies, colour negative film replaced slides as the favoured amateur photography format.
By 2009, with the advent of digital photography, the commercial production of slides had been discontinued almost entirely.
Contact Us About Your Slides
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