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Reserving Equipment Steps

 * Review the equipment descriptions below to know what will be needed to convert your media from home.
 * Use this form to reserve day/time and equipment including a computer: Click Here

Digitizing Equipment Available

 * We do not provide flash drives. Please bring your own 8 - 16 GB flash drive
 * The LVFSL provides Free conversion equipment that will preserve those old audio and video recordings into a format that will be accessible for years to come.
 * Sort and organize your images and documents at home.
 * We will teach you how to operate the equipment.  We will be available throughout your visit to answer your questions.

Computer-Access to:

 * Ancestry
 * Fold3
 * MyHeritage
 * findmypast and more.

1 Large Book/Document Scanner

 * The Epson scanner has a 16” x 24” glass plate and a maximum dpi of 1200dpi
 * Bound books would be opened and placed face down on the glass.
 * The glass is large enough for portrait photographs or pages from large photo albums.



2 Photo Scanners
The Epson PS80 is a rapid photo scanner digitizing 60 photos per minute. The Epson 8.5” x 14” flatbed photo and document scanner can be used for very small or very large images.



3 Scanza Slide Scanners
Kodak Scanza digital film and slide scanner can convert 35mm, 126, 110, Super 8 and 8mm film negative and slides to JPEG. This is manually operated permitting you to view the negative and make adjustments to brightness before saving each slide.



3 Video Tape Conversion Equipment
This equipment will convert VHS & VHS-C tapes, 8mm & Hi8 tapes into MPG4 digital movies. The conversion time is equal to the running time of the tape.



1 Reel to Reel Tape Conversion
This equipment converts reel to reel tapes to MP4 digital files.



1 Audio Cassette & Micro Cassette Tape Converter
Preserve the voice from old audio recording devices.



Wolvering 8mm and Super 8
This is a fully automated digitizer which will convert frame by frame old 8mm and Super 8 reels. Conversion time - A 3” in diameter film will take approximately 45 minutes to convert.



Lexmark Rapid Scanner
The Scanner/Copier will convert your journals and letters and save them as PDF files. The pages must be of equal size, without staples, or scotch tape/glue. We can cut the binding off of a journal so the loose pages can be put into the auto feed and convert your journal in minutes.