Scanning Negatives

[Nawty]

No....not the sort that KW likes so much....the other kind.

Slides as also known by.....how do you scan them to store on your puter. I presume they have to be removed from the usual white or sometimes plastic frames and just the film alone placed in the scanner. I want to be sure before hacking all the slides to pieces.

Also scanning negatives....any reason to do this ? What can you do with them, use them for on computer ??

[mediamanbkk]

About 10 years ago I used to scan my transparencies with a Nikon Coolscan, they still make them but far more advanced.. You can find info here

[kingwilly]

No....not the sort that KW likes so much....

bugger, I thought this was gonna be a good thread.

Also scanning negatives....any reason to do this ? What can you do with them, use them for on computer ??

Fuji and Canon film shops will scan all your old negatives, and burn them onto DVD's for you.

I recently did about 100 36mm films for about $100 here, no idea cost in thailand.

Reason is to preserve them.

[Nawty]

Preserve them ok, but then can you use the negatives on cd to do what ??

can you print from them ?

[BigRed]

you scan them to turn them into digital photos. I think all scanning software can convert from negatives, if not, photohop can.

[Nawty]

Interesting.

So slides or transparencies will be the same then, you can save them and use them as normal prints or whatever ?

[mediamanbkk]

^Basically yes

[chassamui]

Misleading title Nawty, now i'm all deflated.