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| Thread ID: 28389 | 2002-12-18 02:09:00 | Putting photo negatives onto disk | honeylaser (814) | Press F1 |
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| 107122 | 2002-12-18 02:09:00 | Does anyone have any experience with scanning photo negatives to disk/data format? I have 130 or negatives that I was to put directly onto disk rather than getting photos printed and the scanning those. Any idea how much this should cost? A little camera/film shop told me $1 + GST per photo, which I thought was too steep, surely. |
honeylaser (814) | ||
| 107123 | 2002-12-18 02:23:00 | Probably not much help, but I posted Dec 17, 2002 11:47 PM with my solution to similar problem. My reason was that I needed it done just how I wanted, not as some photo shop decided, and once the heavy capital expense was outlaid, I could put negatives on disk (and much else) into the indefinite future with minimal cost per item. |
rugila (214) | ||
| 107124 | 2002-12-18 02:35:00 | I suspect that $1 +GST is actually quite reasonable. Sorry about that. :D Scanning 35mm negatives will be done on an expensive scanner, and when you add up staff time and overheads ... The problem is resolution. To be able to get quality enlarged prints from the 35mm frames you need a lot of pixels/inch. Thousands, rather than tens or even a few hundred, which is what you can get from a cheap A4 scanner. You can try doing it on a standard scanner and see if the results are satisfactory for your purposes. Without a transparency adapter, you will have to find a way to get illumination through the film. We had a thread about this some time ago ... [just been to the Search button at tope of this page] ... try entering "transparency scan" to that. The first two will give you our accumulated wisdom ;-). |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 107125 | 2002-12-18 02:39:00 | You could buy one of those fancy scanners, or, possibly, printers, that accept negatives as input, but as Graham said, they are very expensive compared to standard scanners, and are really designed for professional photographers. | agent (30) | ||
| 107126 | 2002-12-18 03:12:00 | I guess I'll have to pay the $1 per negative then.. no point in spending money on a quality scanner which I don't really need. I'm gutted though - as the photographer who did the photos offered to put them on CD free of charge, and my silly husband said "no, thanks". Does anyone have recommendations on Photo shops in the central Auckland area who would do a quality job? |
honeylaser (814) | ||
| 107127 | 2002-12-18 03:18:00 | It's not impossible if you don't need "perfect" results. Have a look at those threads, and try it. It also depends on what your time is worth to you. ;-) But your husband is going to be kicked. :D | Graham L (2) | ||
| 107128 | 2002-12-18 03:18:00 | Any Kodak 1 hour shop should do it - as they say themselves, "trust the experts". | agent (30) | ||
| 107129 | 2002-12-18 03:29:00 | u need to process them b4 hand if not mistaken. when u exposed raw film onto light it will destroy the photos. so u process them and get a 35mm film scanner like a Nikon CoolScan which go via scsi or usb about $1500-2000 a piece i think. some can add a APS adaptor - thats if u have APS films. |
rayonline (2134) | ||
| 107130 | 2002-12-18 03:42:00 | The negatives have been processed... but... I really don't want to risk destroying these negatives in any way, as they are wedding photos. If anyone has had this done somewhere, and it has gone well, a reference would be great. You hear those horror stories about people getting their negatives chewed and all that sort of thing. X-( :_| X-( |
honeylaser (814) | ||
| 107131 | 2002-12-18 03:50:00 | That's probably not a danger. The scanners are not power fed monsters; the file is put in by hand. The worst risk would be fingerprints, and a photo shop will be aware of that (and know that the culprit can be identified):D A shop would probably be happy to show you how they do it. | Graham L (2) | ||
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