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?

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.

Normal 8 or Regular 8 is a cine film format introduced by Eastman-Kodak in 1932. Learn all about the cine film here.

You are standing in the shop to buy a new scanner and wonder how such a scanner actually works? Your scanner has broken down and for the first time you are asking yourself what parts a scanner actually consists of?
In this article, we at MEDIAFIX would like to briefly explain how a scanner works. In addition, three more articles will be published in the course of the next few weeks in which the different types of scanners will be briefly introduced.