Can someone Help me out with some Film Scanning

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Hello folks, I'm getting in to a little film work and enjoying it tremendously.
I'm getting my films just developed at Jessops at the mo and to be fair thats ok for me. However I do now have a few frames I would love to be scanned and give me the ability to print nice A4 colours or even A3 prints.

So just asking if anyone could help me out, happy to make it worth there while, also I am in West Yorks near Hudds so anyone local to me?

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Why not just get Jessops to burn the images from the negs to CD or DVD?
Save you the hassle and would be a better digital file than scanning a print.
 
philwillmedia said:
Why not just get Jessops to burn the images from the negs to CD or DVD?
Save you the hassle and would be a better digital file than scanning a print.
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Phil its the negs I want to scan not the prints I do have an A4 scanner.
 
You'd probably be better sending the negs to a decent lab and getting them to scan and print them.
 
Photo Express in Hull will scan a set of 35mm negatives (not slides, I think) for £5 at medium resolution...
 
Mr Bump said:
Phil its the negs I want to scan...
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Yep, I got that.
Get Jessops to do it.
If they're a half decent lab, they should be able to put your photos from film (by them scanning your film, not prints) on to a CD or DVD.
If they can't do it, go to a lab that can.
 
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Just so people are aware, unless something has changed dramatically since I worked for Jessops, the prints people get from film are not enlarged directly from the film. The films are scanned onto a computer and sent to a printer which exposes light sensitive paper. The paper is cut before exposure and then developed in chemicals after. My point is that any Jessops that can print from film should have the capability to burn the scans to CD. Further, you should also be able to get a dev and write to CD service, bypassing the prints altogether, should one so desire.

As a side note, if they will scan them, ask them to scan as if printing at 15x10. I'm not sure on the ultimate optical resolution of the scanners, but the scans from 35mm are far from terrible. :)
 
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Thing is I think this has gone off topic a bit, i don't have reams of films to have scanned, i literally have 3 frames from about 4 films that I would like to take forward with scanning and printing. I was looking for that level of assistance. I will have some more going forward but I am not looking for all my stuff to end up digital like that.

I was mainly looking for another member who might be able to help me out for beer tokens.
 
Mr Bump said:
Thing is I think this has gone off topic a bit, i don't have reams of films to have scanned, i literally have 3 frames from about 4 films that I would like to take forward with scanning and printing. I was looking for that level of assistance. I will have some more going forward but I am not looking for all my stuff to end up digital like that.

I was mainly looking for another member who might be able to help me out for beer tokens.
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If you'd have said the blue bits originally, it might have helped

and if you hadn't included the red bit, it wouldn't be considered trading outside classifieds, and I'd have probably volunteered... as it is, I'll just be generous and not give you a red card for it! (so, please, everone, no RTM's on this... anyone else in the staffroom pick up on it, they MAY not be as generous!)

just remember folks - anything that money changes hands needs to be in the classifieds...
 
Jessops will scan and burn as many or as few frames as you want. They can be scanned as entire uncut rolls, cut sections or individual frames. CD's are/were priced per physical disk. (£2 iirc)
 
Woodsy said:
Jessops will scan and burn as many or as few frames as you want. They can be scanned as entire uncut rolls, cut sections or individual frames. CD's are/were priced per physical disk. (£2 iirc)
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Cool that could work for me thanks, I will give the Leeds branch a call.
 
Out of interest what does a half decent film scanner cost?
 
Nup...It hasn't gone of topic.
You're trying to make it way harder than it needs to be.

You had some rolls of film processed by Jessops...
You now have negatives...
You want to be able to print those files to A4 or even A3...
You want someone to scan some frames from those negative and make them digital files so you can print them...
Those frames from the negatives number 3 - ie: three different images...

Is the above correct?

If it is, the easy way to do it is...

Take the strips of negs that have the images you want/need to Jessops.
(Having shot thousands of rolls of film, my educated guess will be that the negs are in strips of six (maybe 4) frames)

HAVE THEM SCAN THE THREE FRAMES YOU HAVE SELECTED AND BURN THOSE TO DISK.

Job done.

Cost...probably less than beer tokens.
Time taken...probably a lot less than having to wait to hook up with someone on the forum and for them to be able to do it.

Simple!
 
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Look on eBay for an Epson V500 scanner, it will do perfectly for your needs if a little outdated.

If you want to post the negs to me ill scan them for you and stick em on a cd for the price of return post.

Just pm me if your interested :D
 
ChrisH said:
Look on eBay for an Epson V500 scanner, it will do perfectly for your needs if a little outdated.

If you want to post the negs to me ill scan them for you and stick em on a cd for the price of return post.

Just pm me if your interested :D
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:bang::bang::bang: So - would you like your red card for trading outside classifieds or for attempting PM trading. :nono::nono::nono:

I did give a bit of a hint to keep this thread clear of this sort of comment up there ^^^
 
If you're only going to scan 35mm, I recommend you get a dedicated 35mm scanner such as a Nikon Coolscan V (I've seen this sell for around £350 in the classifieds). It will be much, much better than what you get from Jessops or a V500.
 
olelovold said:
If you're only going to scan 35mm, I recommend you get a dedicated 35mm scanner such as a Nikon Coolscan V (I've seen this sell for around £350 in the classifieds). It will be much, much better than what you get from Jessops or a V500.
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yeah - £115 per frame for the 3 frames he wants scanning.

I'll come back to the obvious answer

JESSOPS
 
ChrisH said:
Look on eBay for an Epson V500 scanner, it will do perfectly for your needs if a little outdated.

If you want to post the negs to me ill scan them for you and stick em on a cd for the price of return post.

Just pm me if your interested :D
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:bang::bang::bang: So - would you like your red card for trading outside classifieds or for attempting PM trading. :nono::nono::nono:
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I've seen posts offering scans every few months from helpful forum members, for people who only wanted a few scans done? Has there been a rule change regarding this, because it always just used to be viewed as helping out rather than an infraction?

I can't find any examples at the moment, because each of those threads tend to use different terminology (making them quite difficult to hunt down), but it's definitely not the first time I've seen someone offering a hand. I was thinking of also offering, albeit my Epson 4180 isn't so good for 35mm frames.
 
TheBigYin said:
yeah - £115 per frame for the 3 frames he wants scanning.

I'll come back to the obvious answer

JESSOPS
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Well, he wants to make good A4/A3 prints. Don't know if I'd trust Jessops with that. If the raw scan has clipped highlights/shadows or excessive USM due to operator incompetence, there's no turning back, and it won't make a good print.

Having your own film scanner also means that you can scan all your negs for no cost at any time you want, a freedom which is for me essential when working with film.

Film scanners hold their price very well, so even if he didn't use it much, he could sell it again for the same price he bought it for.
 
Sincere apologies for seeming to invite rule breaking I didn't see an issue but I guess in the days we live in over hyper sensitivity I should have seen this coming, I do believe my origonal post did say I was asking for help from a member so as to Big Yins Blue bits I am confused, but hey ho I was just saying to the wife this place is so friendly, will have to report back now to say some sharks about, sigh....
 
TheBigYin said:
yeah - £115 per frame for the 3 frames he wants scanning.

I'll come back to the obvious answer

JESSOPS
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But the OP broadened his own thread and asked about scanners, so olelovoid's advice was perfectly relevant wasn't it?

freecom2 said:
I can't find any examples at the moment.
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I know of at least one, but I'm not going to link to it because I don't want anyone else getting red cards for trying to help.

I don't want to turn this into a moderation discussion, because appart from anything else it'd soon get shut down, but this stuff worries me. I used to belong to a (non-photography) forum that was completely destroyed by moderation. People were basically stopped from either asking for or offering help because it was deamed either trading or charity fundraising. Such things got relegated to a back room that no one ever visited, and people who concidered each other friends could no longer help each other out unhindered. Very very sad.

I read the OP's original post, even before clarrification, as wanting a small number of frames scanning to CD, with a request to see if anyone could help. I can't see how the blue quotes change that request at all. Maybe Jessops is a better option, but I saw nothing wrong with the question?

Isn't trading profit making? Doing someone a favour with only expenses covered wouldn't be most people's common sense deffinition of it IMHO.

Anyway, please send my red card to my home address in plain wrapping so my wife doesn't learn of my shame :)
 
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TheBigYin said:
:bang::bang::bang: So - would you like your red card for trading outside classifieds or for attempting PM trading. :nono::nono::nono:

I did give a bit of a hint to keep this thread clear of this sort of comment up there ^^^
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H'mm Mark...if you want to do someone a favour and all you want is to be covered by the postage, then how would you do this as who is going to go to classifieds on the chance someone will do some film scanning for nothing. And a link in this thread to the classifieds would seem a roundabout way to achieve the same result.
 
excalibur2 said:
H'mm Mark...if you want to do someone a favour and all you want is to be covered by the postage, then how would you do this as who is going to go to classifieds on the chance someone will do some film scanning for nothing. And a link in this thread to the classifieds would seem a roundabout way to achieve the same result.
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^^ This. This is exactly what killed the other forum I mentioned. You could still ask/offer, so the mods saw no problem with making the change, but in practice no one ever actually got to see the request/offer because it wasn't part of the ongoing discourse.
 
Don't concern yourself chaps its all ok.
I'm just here to take pics and glean some usefulls, bar fights and scraps are not my bag.

Thanks for all who responded with good hearts and intentions.
 
What's happened to the general feeling of bonhomme that abounded in the f&c section? I spend a few days in Wales and folk start getting all uppity.
 
I know Paul, but I've seen what happens to over-moderated forums, and it's not pretty :( :)
 
Southdowns said:
I know Paul, but I've seen what happens to over-moderated forums, and it's not pretty :( :)
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yep I kinda found out that a few years ago when i was a member of a motorbike forum as I am keen biker also.
however the only answer seemed to be just do your own thing and let folk be folk and thats what I did and drifted away from the forum.

I am enjoying this forum and at the end of the day its give and take.

forums are strange places and people read what they want to read and ignore the rest so it leads to unbalanced views sometimes.

hey ho.
 
in case people haven't quite got it yet - NOBODY'S been given any infractions, NOBODY's sat on the naughty step, and NOBODY's saying you can't help out a fellow member - hell I've done exactly what the OP was asking for on behalf of at least 2 members in the past.

If it'd been stated explicitly that there had been a finite number (not "a few frames" btw - which could well have been anything up to 30-40 shots) then as I said I'd probably have volunteered myself.

Asking someone to do a service "for beer tokens" IS asking for a service in return for payment however - volunteering to do the job for someone is not - it's dead easy to organise - the person getting the scan takes the neg's, a bland cd/dvd and a SAE to the post office, so he's paying for the whole lot.

And if you think that this is an over-moderated forum you really are frequenting some complete free-for-alls...

I'll now leave the thread, unsubscribe, and let all the future RTM's for this thread be dealt with by someone else I think.
 
Hey folks, in general I don't think we're over-moderated at all! The rules are pretty clear, no trading except in the classifieds, even freebies are supposed to go that way too. Mark does a great job on our behalf, and I don't think we should be snarky when he reminds us of the rules (quite gently I thought).
 
Agreed 98% Chris, though I object a tiny bit to "snarky", defined as "sharply critical". :)

Anyway, this isn't the place to discuss moderation, so I've gone to PM and won't comment here any more :)
 
ChrisR said:
Hey folks, in general I don't think we're over-moderated at all! The rules are pretty clear, no trading except in the classifieds, even freebies are supposed to go that way too. Mark does a great job on our behalf, and I don't think we should be snarky when he reminds us of the rules (quite gently I thought).
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No one is saying Mark is not an excellent mod, it was just the interpretation of the rules over something small....e.g. if the OP had said " Have a pint of beer on me while you are scanning my negs for free" would that be considered trading. :shrug:
 
excalibur2 said:
No one is saying Mark is not an excellent mod, it was just the interpretation of the rules over something small....e.g. if the OP had said " Have a pint of beer on me while you are scanning my negs for free" would that be considered trading. :shrug:
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I do believe that Inland Revinue DO actually consider 'gratuities' and 'payement in kind' to constitute part of your personal, and taxable income; I believe waiters & barmen have to declare 'tips' and things like that.....

There was some ho-ha I recall vaguely a while back, where a village in somewhere rural had adopted an ancient feudal token system; and it got the tax man all hot and bothered, when they tried chasing the accounts of the local farmer, who has apparently 'given away' all his cabbages, potatoes and eggs from the farm shop, and they ended up giving him a tax demand based on the value they reckoned he should have received from them, based on what they cost in Tescos! And he tried paying it in Turnips of something!

Or maybe that was a sub-plot in the archers, half listened too.... either way... payment in kind is apparently recognized in law as payment, and by the tax man.
 
Teflon-Mike said:
I do believe that Inland Revinue DO actually consider 'gratuities' and 'payement in kind' to constitute part of your personal, and taxable income; I believe waiters & barmen have to declare 'tips' and things like that.....

There was some ho-ha I recall vaguely a while back, where a village in somewhere rural had adopted an ancient feudal token system; and it got the tax man all hot and bothered, when they tried chasing the accounts of the local farmer, who has apparently 'given away' all his cabbages, potatoes and eggs from the farm shop, and they ended up giving him a tax demand based on the value they reckoned he should have received from them, based on what they cost in Tescos! And he tried paying it in Turnips of something!

Or maybe that was a sub-plot in the archers, half listened too.... either way... payment in kind is apparently recognized in law as payment, and by the tax man.
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Interesting point in that the owner of the site wants all transactions in the open in one place so the taxman can easily see what's going on, which would be a lot easier for them picking on the little people than giant corps. ;)
 
Beer is only taxable at 3.5% though isn't it? That's what it says on this bottle here anyway.

You don't want to be paid in vodka though, that's 40%, which is higher rate regardless of your other income.
 
Southdowns said:
Beer is only taxable at 3.5% though isn't it? That's what it says on this bottle here anyway.

You don't want to be paid in vodka though, that's 40%, which is higher rate regardless of your other income.
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That's where I've been going wrong, I need to drink more low tax ale.
 
I dont want to WINE, but its a bit of a RUM do! 37 1/2%. I think they ought to SCOTCH it myself. Especially this one:-
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But you know what the sailors say; any PORT in a storm, though I'm no ADVOCAAT of the philosophy :-)
 
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