Scanning 35mm negs & slides

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Hi,

I'm lucky enough to have The Darkroom (http://www.the-darkroom.co.uk) a couple of minutes from my office so I intend to get them to dev & print my negs and dev only my slides. However, I'd like to scan some stuff occasionally at a final res of approx 1920 x 1080 so it'll look nice on the TV. In other words I'm not going to scan with the intention of printing from the scan, only display on the web/tv.

So, given that info can I get away with something cheapish? Any pointersd where to start looking?

Muchas gracias!

EDIT: Cancel that. I found somewhere that will dev (C41, 36exp), print and scan to CD (3000 x 2000 pixels) for £6.50. Sorted!
 
**EDIT: Cancel that. I found somewhere that will dev (C41, 36exp), print and scan to CD (3000 x 2000 pixels) for £6.50. Sorted!**

Or if your local superstore Tesco is any good you can get it for £1.98, which is good enough for forums and emails, dunno about a wide screen tv.
 
Had a few problems with local Tesco; negatives scratched, dust on scans, low res scans and not doing scans within an hour as advertised but interestingly will do scans and prints... Wouldn't touch them with a bargepole now. I use club35
 
And as with every time Tesco's developing is mentioned - it depends on your local store. If they're good, and they have a decent throughput, the quality's fine. If they don't, then they run the range from acceptable though to terrible. BUT for £2 and a test film, it's worth trying them once to see if you've got lucky, and if not, hey, its only the price of a pint. I reckon it's worth a punt to try - just don't take anything invaluble in to test 'em out with. You could end up saving a fiver a roll, every roll. Or you could come away determined to only use a proper lab in the future. Either way someone will benefit - either you and your pocket, or all the rest of us who don't have a decent Tesco nearby and use pro labs instead - the more people who use pro labs, the longer they'll stay around for us all.
 
Decided to use the local pro lab (www.the-darkroom.co.uk) to get a dev and print @ £7.99 for 36exp (2hr turnaround). The print quality (from the examples I've seen - not got mine back yet) look superb. If the actual prints come out well enough then I'll just scan them using my flatbed scanner.
 
... but be careful - do not buy an adapter made for film cameras to copy slides (like the Ohnar maybe), the distance from slide to sensor is set for full frame and if you have a crop sensor you will lose part of your original image.
 
jj_glos said:
I'll be interested to see how you get on, only being down the road it's an option I have entertained as well!
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Very high quality prints have returned! I have a small orange ghosting on the edge of one of the shots though. I'm guessing the camera is to blame but I'll maybe post the shot up here for opinions from you guys.

The only negative (pardon the pun) is that they managed to cut into the frame when trimming the negs. It's probably only 1/10th of a millimetre but I expected betetr from a Pro lab.

I'm going to try http://www.photofilmprocessing.co.uk/35mmfilm.html next time.
 
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