MEDIAFIX guidebook

Do you still have many slides, negatives and photo prints at home? That is basically very nice and shows that you place a lot of value on preserving old memories. Surely you have already asked yourself how best to store the old picture material so that these memories are preserved for as long as possible.
The following article is intended to give you an overview of the best storage options for your old photos.

If there are still old slides in your household, it is certainly in the cellar or attic. Slides take up a lot of space, many hobby photographers have several boxes of them stored away. But is storing slides in these places really a good idea? And how long do slides actually last?

Slides are also stored safely in your home. Stacked in boxes, crates or even loose in cartons – many of us have been capturing all our important events such as holidays or celebrations on slides for years, if not decades. Now all these memories are stored at home and you wonder how you should store your slides? In this article, MEDIAFIX would like to give you tips and information on slide storage and explain why you will not be able to avoid digitising your slides.

If you plan to have your photos and perhaps slides and negatives professionally scanned, you will also need a plan for archiving the digital files afterwards.

You can’t have your VHS tapes digitised right away? Then store them properly so that your memories are preserved as much as possible. We tell you what to look out for.

In this first part of our scanner series, we at MEDIAFIX would like to explain a type of scanner that most of you are probably already familiar with from everyday life and that many people certainly have at home: the flatbed scanner.

In the past, a number of film archives have gone up in flames without any apparent reason at first. Until it was discovered: The nitrate films stored there had ignited themselves. We show you how to recognise nitrate films!

To prevent your Super 8 films from getting dirty or drying out, you should make sure that they are stored correctly. However, it also helps if you clean your Super 8 regularly.

MEDIAFIX recommends IrfanView for editing scanned photos.

Actually, everyone still knows the audio cassette. But what is behind this small music medium? MEDIAFIX has recently started digitising music cassettes and will enlighten you!