Why Digitize Slides, Negatives, and VHS Tapes?

Here are only a few reasons why you should digitize your film:

Film fades over time, digital files do not. Preservation is the number one reason people digitize.
To view and share your images on the web.
To revive faded colors. Colors can be restored once an image is digital.
Film attracts dust & airborne particles. These can be permanently removed during scanning.
Film can appear very "grainy," but this can be smoothed out when digitized.
To preserve and archive your family history for later generations, some images are irreplaceable.
Digital images can be copied over and over at a very low cost, film duplication is expensive.
You are more likely to view your images on your computer or TV than set up the slide projector.
To give your collection of images as a gift.
Images can be sorted and labeled very easily on your computer.
You can email digital pictures to people.
You can make several copies, one for storing in another location such as a safety deposit box.
Save space! DVD's and CD's are much smaller than carousels of slides or VHS tapes.
Prints can be made from digital files and they will probably look better than the originals!
Digitize for Powerpoint presentations.