Converting 120 film negs to jpeg

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Hi everyone.

Firstly - I've tried the search function, and can't find what I'm looking for, so if this has been answered somewhere already, my apologies !

Secondly - I hope I've posted in the correct section. If not, then again, please accept my apology !

So, getting to the point .... I have some negatives in 120 film format. My dad's scanner can't do these. I'm wondering if anyone can point me to the most cost effective place to get these done, i.e. converted to digital images so that I can get prints done at my leisure ? I have 75 images that require converting.

Your help in regards to this would be gratefully received folks.

Thanks !!
 
if you have a tablet you could try getting a flashlight app, putting that on full brightness, and laying it on top of the neg, and scanning
 
Welcome, always the right place this.
You could check out some of the companies in these threads that dev and scan to cd, Ag, Peak etc. Not many do roll film though and it could cost a bit.
Knowing how friendly folk here are, some one may offer to do them for you. 75 is a back breaking amount though and if it were me would require a pretty big donation to charity. Good luck and please post some when done.
 
What size 120 negs are they 645, 6x6, 6x7 ?
 
just a thought, but could you put them on a light box or window, and take a picture of them with a digital camera? quality might not be amazing tho :/
 
It looks like some of the processing shops will do it; Peak Imaging at £1 per image for that number; The Darkroom for about £12 per film (8-16 images depending on format). Haven't checked any others. See the film processing sticky at the top of this forum.

The "shine a light through and take a photo" approaches will sort of work, but will give you around 1/10 for quality unless you do a lot of work! However, I did have some success with an ordinary all-in-one printer-scanner, inverting images with the gimp; at least enough to find out what was on the images and get them scanned properly (in my case at the local camera shop, although he charged an arm and a leg).

Edited: here's a post describing what I did and showing the results. I realised that the usefulness of this (and other short cut approaches) depends on them being black and white negatives. If any are colour, it is much harder to invert them because of the colour mask from the film substrate.
 
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Let me know what size negs they are, I may be able to help you out.
 
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