Looking for help with ,old family b&w negatives please!

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Cheezybeanz

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Hello!
I'm helping digitised family photos and came across around 10 b&w chopped up negatives. A couple have 'Kodak Safety Film' printed alongside the photo. I'm guessing these are approx 65 years old. Does anyone know what these are and if I should be able to digitised in a similar manner to 1970 Kodak slides with the cardboard frame? I'm not sure if I can add a photo!,
Many thanks!
 
The safety film part refers to the base material of the film, meaning it's not celluloid and extremely flammable. As far as digitising goes, the only real difference will be that negatives will need to be reversed to give a positive image. That will require either post processing software, or be done when scanning the negatives if you're using a scanner.

If they are that age, they won't be significantly different from modern films, certainly not to the extent of needing different handling - I was using black and white films 65 years ago...
 
Just a touch of ambiguity there, Stephen, I'm sure you meant: "...meaning it's not celluloid and therefore not extremely flammable...";)
 
Cheezybeanz said:
Hello!
I'm helping digitised family photos and came across around 10 b&w chopped up negatives. A couple have 'Kodak Safety Film' printed alongside the photo. I'm guessing these are approx 65 years old. Does anyone know what these are and if I should be able to digitised in a similar manner to 1970 Kodak slides with the cardboard frame? I'm not sure if I can add a photo!,
Many thanks!
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If you can digitise them in a similar manner to your Kodak slides, as Stephen says you will end up with negative images. It is generally not hard to invert the images. The first time I tried it, I scanned the negaives with my Canon all-in-one printer/scanner, and then managed to work out how to invert the negatives using free software (The Gimp). Or if you've only 10, tap one of us up in the DMs and I'm sure we could do something (possibly quick and dirty) for you.
 
ChrisR said:
Just a touch of ambiguity there, Stephen, I'm sure you meant: "...meaning it's not celluloid and therefore not extremely flammable...";)
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I did spot the ambiguity, and considered amending the post by adding brackets around "celluloid and extremely flammable" to make it clear. Then I wondered if the use of that notation would be itself confusing :)
 
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