My hobby of archiving old family photos involves digitizing and salvaging photos for family and friends. I realized how damaged even well-preserved photos can become over time a few years ago when I was looking through my mother's acid-free, archival quality photo albums and negative sleeves. Several prints and negatives that my mother had taken back in the 1960's and 1970's were faded almost beyond recognition. Wanting to restore my mother's photos, and also wanting to give my wonderful mother-in-law a gift by digitizing her family slide photos, I decided to purchase a film scanner. After much...