You probably have a lot of old pictures, negatives and film slides sitting around your house just collecting dust. Perhaps you’ve thought of converting them into digital files, but you don’t want to spend the hundreds of dollars it costs sending your images to a lab for digital conversion. If this is you, then you need to think about investing in Silicon Valley Peripherals’ line of digital film scanners.

A photo slide scanner can help you convert your images into digital files. Many popular models will transfer images to SD card readers. Others can connect to a computer through a USB hub or burn images directly onto a CD. Each type of media can be an effective storage choice, although many people prefer SD memory cards because of their reusability, portability and relatively low price.

Also, it’s important to know which features come with certain film slide scanners. Some scanners will not allow you to view the final output for your image or make basic adjustments such as brightness, color, saturation and hue before transferring the file. This means that you have to go into a photo editing program to make these changes. It’s easier to find 35mm negative scanners or other scanners that have these features automatically.