Scanning Film (inparticular 110 size from old instamatic)

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Had my sisters and my mum round for lunch today and they brought some old photos with them, which I've managed to nick, on the promise of scanning them in and giving them back. (I'm trying to collect and digitise as many pictures of our family as I can, while I can).

Anyway, going through the photo envelopes, I thought I'd have a quick shufty at the negs. It seems there are quite a few of the photos missing.
Ergo, I'd like to get these negs scanned in.

Being a film imbecile I have no idea what is required, if at all available, or if it's cheaper to pay someone to scan them in for me.
I'm not likely to need to do it again after this, so buying something may not be the best option.

Apart from some 35mm (which I wouldnt mind scanning in at the same time), it's mainly the old 110 film, in strips of about 6 or so.

Does anything exist? Any ideas?
 
The only option I can think of is for you to try a slide copier, but to do that you need one and a lens that has a close up macro feature.
 
£30-£90 price range for different types of copier. Try srbfilm.co.uk for an explanation and prices.
 
Thanks for that mate :D

I'll go take a look at the website now. Much appreciated, cheers :thumbs:
 
Heaven knows why 110 film became so popular, the negative size was just ridiculously small. I think the cassette loading system appealed to the public who didn't want the hassle of attaching a film leader to a spool! :shrug:

Real cheapskate suggestion for you Bod. :D

Create a pure white (plain) image which will fill your monitor screen and back light the negs. Then photograph them using either a macro lens or extension tubes. Obviously you'll need to make sure things are levelled up as much as possible and use a small aperture.
 
I really didn't know I could do that.

With these only being a handful of photos that are missing (I can marry up alot of the negs to the images).

Then I could give that a try :D Cheers!
I'll respond back, let you know how it all works.
 
CT said:
Real cheapskate suggestion for you Bod. :D

Create a pure white (plain) image which will fill your monitor screen and back light the negs. Then photograph them using either a macro lens or extension tubes. Obviously you'll need to make sure things are levelled up as much as possible and use a small aperture.
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Anyone else toying with the idea of doing this... don't bother. Ask me who was the dumbass who should have realised that at that magnification it shows up the screen pixel pattern. :p

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LOL - I thought about that might happen :thinking:, however a plain white light and a piece of paper might be better, or a clear glass table with a light shining from beneath and paper on the top.
 
Yeah it's definitely do-able. I've been chatting on MSN with Bod about similar possibilities it just needs some diffused light behind the negative
 
I have a 1 Watt led torch which would make an ideal light source for this sort of thing...its a very white light and gives off virtually no heat...Have to dig out my parents negatives and give it a go...
 
Pete E said:
I have a 1 Watt led torch which would make an ideal light source for this sort of thing...its a very white light and gives off virtually no heat...Have to dig out my parents negatives and give it a go...
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Could work! I do have a neg scanner, but scanning a lot of negatives is a long laborious process compared to copying the negs. Once you've set everything up it's just click, click.
 
Doing a search & found this thread, so need to ask ...

Marcel, did you ever do anything with these negs?


I ask as Ive been asked to submit some old pics to a website about New Romantics/Glam punk scene.
Some of my pics have become rather reddish in tone & some have faded dreadfully... I have to admit that they werent the best taken pics in the first place! :embarrassed:
Ive found out some negs, a mixture of 110 & 128 format. Id love to get them on a disc but not if its going to work out stupidly expensive because as I say, the quality is questionable anyway.

Any advice Marcel? anyone?
 
This would really help too since there isn't a hope of me finding a decent scanner within 100 miles of where I live.
 
I never did anything in the end. I still have the negatives in a box :embarrassed:
 
You could try South West Colour Labs (based in Devon,) for scanning 110 film. I'm not 100% sure they'll be able to do it, but they're certainly worth a try. Their tel no is: 01803 666640 - ask for Pat.;)
 
I've had moderately good sucess with a 55mm macro lens tripod and lightbox. This was photographing B&W negatives though.
 
Thanks for that. Glo, would you let me know what they say?

I'm only after a few handfuls of neg strips to be done (as opposed to big batches), and obviously I'd have to do it by post.
 
Marcel said:
Thanks for that. Glo, would you let me know what they say?

I'm only after a few handfuls of neg strips to be done (as opposed to big batches), and obviously I'd have to do it by post.
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Just spoke to Pat as suggested and she said that they do indeed scan 110 negs.

Between 1-4 diff negs = £3 per scan, producing 1-3mb image

Between 1-4 diff negs = £6 per scan, producing 4-30mb image

5-24 negs has a price drop to £2.50 per scan on the 1-3mb
and £5 on the 4-30mb.

Hmm! dunno what to do ... have lots of different strips with like 1 or 2 pics of interest on them.
I can see this could add to quite a bit and the pic quality is pretty poor in the first place.... probably why lots of us will still have unprinted negs in another 10 years from now!

Going to check out CT's link.
 
What are the dimensions of 110 film?
I can probably do these on my scanner with the 120 holder, just so long as I can keep them fairly flat... (The scanner has pretty deep DoF anyway).
 
Hoodi.... they're tiny things.... The image is only 13×17 millimetres, with one registration hole but they fit in yer pocket! ;)
 
Oh right, I see - well if anyone wants to send me stuff I'd be happy to have a crack at scanning it - I'm fairly sure it'd work just fine. There's only so much detail that my (basic!) equipment could resolve from a negative that size, but I suppose it's better than nothing...

Marcel / Glo (or anyone else reading this) just get in touch and we'll sort something out, FOC of course :)

edit : And if anyone is reading this and thinking "aahhhh but I really don't want to inconvenience him" I'd actively like to have a look at some 110 film and see what scanning it can produce. As mentioned I'm not familiar with the stuff :)
 
Hmmm, the SWCL route is not necessarily the cheapest option then, sorry folks. Tbh I'm quite surprised they still offer the service, as not many labs do nowadays.

Be interested to see any results, whatever method you guys try.:)
 
Neil's scanner is much, much higher end than mine - but whereas I know mine is happy enough to scan an "odd" shape it may be trickier with Neils.

Regardless, we live only a couple of streets apart, so if you send them to one of us I'm sure we could both have a crack at them and send on the best results to you :)
 
I await the results with baited breath :D
That's a mighty fine offer from both of you, many thanks :) I'll wait to see how you go with Glo's negs first.

As promised, I only have a few :)
 
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