Putting Old Prints on your Wireless Digital Picture Frame
Ever since I got my Digital Spectrum MF 8104 wireless digital picture frame, I’ve been borrowing pictures from friends and relatives to add to my FrameChannel account so they can be added to my slideshow. Recent pictures are all digital, of course, and those are a cinch to add to FrameChannel. I also want old and older pictures, though, and most of my family don’t even have a negative for those any more. Those pictures must be scanned.
There are all kinds of scanners: big ones, small ones, expensive ones, less expensive ones. . . . the best ones, of course, cost a lot. There are profesional scanners made especially for photographs, too.
Until such time as you can get your hands on a professional top-knotch scanner, however, you can make do with the scanner you probably already have. Mine is a a Canon Canoscan D646Uex. It was never really intended for pictures, but I’ve been scanning old photographs with it for months now, and it does a pretty good job!
I’ve had my scanner for several years; I think it cost well under a hundred dollars at the time.
Digital pictures look the best, naturally, but I’m serious when I tell you that the really, really old photographs that I scanned onto my computer with that old Canon Canoscan D646Uex scanner look really good on my wireless picture frame. A professional photographer or artist might be able to tell the difference, but I can’t.
When you buy a wireless/digital picture frame for older people, especially, they’re going to want to see their older pictures on it. That means a scanner, but don’t panic. I can tell you from experience that your old scanner will work just fine.
If you’re loaded with cash, you can take the old pictures in and have a professional scan them for you with a fancy, expensive, professional scanner, but if you’re like me, that’s completley out of your reach.
Just use the scanner you’ve already got. It does take a while, but the results are worth it.
These are my husband’s grandparents. This picture was taken back in the Roaring Twenties. Was it digital? Not hardly. But it is now.
With a little patience, and a LOT of time, you can scan all of your family’s old photographs and put them on your wireless picture frame. You an also email them to people and otherwise share them.
Scanning these old pictures also preserves them. Old pictures tend to fade, and it would be terrible indeed if your family’s cache of memories were lost.
Save them, and look at them anew, on your wireless digital picture frame.
