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I wasnt sure where would be the best place to post this, so sorry if its not in the correct area.

I used to go hiking and climbing for about 10 years and always used a point and shoot camera, with film. So I have hundreds of old shots I would like to share over the internet. Now Im wondering if there is a way that I could get some of the images from my negatives or the film onto my computer or onto a disc. Can anyone tell me how to go about this please?

Ive tried scanning the actual photographs but ended up with very poor results.
 
You could scan the prints at very high DPI's, or get a film scanner, or have a lab scan them for you, or see if some nice person on the film and conventional forum will scan them for you (probably for a favour in return).
 
THanks, I have a scanner and have tried scanning prints in with very poor results.
 
You need to scan the negs with a capable scanner.
That is, as scanner designed to scan film.
Scanning prints on an ordinary flatbed are mostly gonna be poor in comparison.
 
Can anyone recommend a good negatives scanner????
 
zarozinia said:
Can anyone recommend a good negatives scanner????
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What formats do you want to scan
What quality do you need the scans to be
What is you're budget


now recommend me a good camera plz :D
 
I would like to scan negatives to a high quality. Budget under £100 if possible.
 
Under £100 won't get you brilliant quality, and you'll soon tire of the process.

Much better to get the job done by a lab. Don't trust the High Street chains! I used to use Club35 for film-to-Web and their current price is £12.50 max per roll. You would have to be very keen to want to DIY large numbers for 35p a snap.

http://www.club35.co.uk/cd.html
 
What do you mean by high quality? For some people, it just means good enough to show their mates on the internet, for others it means good enough for A2 prints.

A good film scanner should (with care) give the best results but a budget of under £100 won't get you a very good one. You might get a reasonable flatbed with a film hood for that sort of money - ask in your local Jessops/PCWorld/photo retailer. That should give you good enough results for sharing on the web (read the OP properly and saw that that is the final use). The process will take time though and the results will need some PP work (although you might be able to set the scanner software to do that automatically.)
 
zarozinia said:
I would like to scan negatives to a high quality. Budget under £100 if possible.
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There is a fair bit of choice if you're only scanning 35mm, unfortunately you are looking at secondhand for anything approaching passable quality for £100.
I think the cheapest and best combination for quality would be one of the 35mm coolscans, I can't recommend one in particular there are so many, and I've never used one, I don't even know if you could get one for £100.
You could find a cheap flatbed like Epsons 4490, which isn't bad, you just need to do more work in PP, as already mentioned.

Do some research for dedicated-
Minolta
Nikon
Microtek
Polaroid
AGFA
Canon

For Flatbeds -
Epson
Microtek
Canon
HP

Watch out for old scsi only connection to PC (no usb or firewire) and give those hand held things a miss.
You could do worse than check out the film forum, since its.....err.....film related :suspect:
 
I have recently done some research into this and got myself a flatbed Epson V350. Cost me £82 delivered from amazon within 2 days! I'm scanning some negs as we speak! (or type?!) Impressions so far are good, I only wanted one capable of the basics, I wont be producing mahoosive images with them. When I come across some decent pics i'll get them posted in the Film section, might be a while before I find some decent exposures though :lol:
 
I've recently bought an Epson V200 for about £60. It has an attachment so that you can scan slides and negatives, it's good :)
 
Well I managed to get 150 negatives transfered onto a cd at boots for only £7.50. Theyre only 72 dpi, but large files - so by the time I resize them to 800 x 600 pixels theyre not too bad. So Im happy enough.
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Thats a good price and its certainly come out well, I kept thinking I should get some of my old ones put onto disc but always thought it would be more expensive than that.
 
susie said:
Thats a good price and its certainly come out well, I kept thinking I should get some of my old ones put onto disc but always thought it would be more expensive than that.
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Its a great deal isnt it? Thats why I thought I would share, there must be lots of people out there who would like to do the same. Boots do up to 200 negatives per cd, for a one off charge of £7.50. I have quite a few more to get done yet, so Im glad its cheap. It only took 90 minutes too.:D
 
Not sure if you will be interested, but I noticed this on the Photo Section on QVC. Summit Photofix 35mm Negative Film & Slide Photo Scanner @ £65.70.Product No. 559401. They have a 30 day money back quarantee as well !
Check their website for Video & Customer Rating. www.qvcuk.com
 
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