Scanning in Negatives and convertng to Pictures?

[Kelemvor]

I know you can take 35mm negatives to picture places and they can make pictures for you but I've also heard that you can get certain scanners and things like that which allow you to do the same thing at home.

Has anyone used any of these things before that can speak for how well the images turn out? The negatives are so small I'm not sure how much detail a home scanner would pull out of them or if it's better to just take them to the store to get profesional pictures created.

Anyone have experience with this?

 

[Medicine Bear]

I was looking to do the same thing. After reading several reviews I settled on this and have no regrets. Works very well.

 

[NuclearNed]

MS Photo Editor has an option to process negatives - I've only expiremented with it briefly but it seemed to work pretty well.

 

[sixone]

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
I know you can take 35mm negatives to picture places and they can make pictures for you but I've also heard that you can get certain scanners and things like that which allow you to do the same thing at home.

Has anyone used any of these things before that can speak for how well the images turn out? The negatives are so small I'm not sure how much detail a home scanner would pull out of them or if it's better to just take them to the store to get profesional pictures created.

Anyone have experience with this?

Yes. It takes a friggin' long time, very tedious. If your negatives are pristine, you will get beautiful images, but if the negs are the slightest bit dusty or dirty, you will need to do some touching up.

 

[Medicine Bear]

Originally posted by: sixone

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
I know you can take 35mm negatives to picture places and they can make pictures for you but I've also heard that you can get certain scanners and things like that which allow you to do the same thing at home.

Has anyone used any of these things before that can speak for how well the images turn out? The negatives are so small I'm not sure how much detail a home scanner would pull out of them or if it's better to just take them to the store to get profesional pictures created.

Anyone have experience with this?

Yes. It takes a friggin' long time, very tedious. If your negatives are pristine, you will get beautiful images, but if the negs are the slightest bit dusty or dirty, you will need to do some touching up.

Never had any problems with negatives at all. Even some that weren't in the best of shape. Only time I have had to really mess with things to get a good picture is on some old 35mm slides that were taken in the 50's when my Dad was in the Air Force in Korea. Some of them were in pretty bad shape. Still after spending a bit of time on them they came out very nice.

 

[Connoisseur]

A friend of mine who is a big photography buff has something like this... I think maybe an older model. FS-4000. His scans the negatives in at something like 11mp. Lord knowns what this one scans in at.

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: Medicine Bear
I was looking to do the same thing. After reading several reviews I settled on this and have no regrets. Works very well.

Is it the scanner that is special to let it do this or the software that it comes with that makes it work. I have a scanner already but don't know if I need a special scanner or just special software to do this...

 

[Medicine Bear]

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior

Originally posted by: Medicine Bear
I was looking to do the same thing. After reading several reviews I settled on this and have no regrets. Works very well.

Is it the scanner that is special to let it do this or the software that it comes with that makes it work. I have a scanner already but don't know if I need a special scanner or just special software to do this...

I think the scanner is the most important piece. Scanned some negatives with an older scanner and could never get them to look very good. Bought the Canon and pretty much straight out of the box it worked well.

 

[gigapet]

did it on my home scanner that came with a special adapter. Its nto a fancy scanner but it worked great.

 

[radioouman]

There is a relatively new Canon scanner that does this. I bought it for my Mom for Christmas and she has been scanning slides and film from my Grandpa's 35 mm camera.

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: Medicine Bear

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior

Originally posted by: Medicine Bear
I was looking to do the same thing. After reading several reviews I settled on this and have no regrets. Works very well.

Is it the scanner that is special to let it do this or the software that it comes with that makes it work. I have a scanner already but don't know if I need a special scanner or just special software to do this...

I think the scanner is the most important piece. Scanned some negatives with an older scanner and could never get them to look very good. Bought the Canon and pretty much straight out of the box it worked well.

I'm getting a Visioneer 7100 USB scanner today from someone for like $10 becaue he doesn't use it. Wonder if I could scan in with that and just use Photoshop or something to make a decent picture... Guess I'll have to experiment.

Does the canon come with it's own software to do the Negative --> Picture conversion or just some standard software program anyone can use?

 

[Medicine Bear]

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior

Originally posted by: Medicine Bear

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior

Originally posted by: Medicine Bear
I was looking to do the same thing. After reading several reviews I settled on this and have no regrets. Works very well.

Is it the scanner that is special to let it do this or the software that it comes with that makes it work. I have a scanner already but don't know if I need a special scanner or just special software to do this...

I think the scanner is the most important piece. Scanned some negatives with an older scanner and could never get them to look very good. Bought the Canon and pretty much straight out of the box it worked well.

I'm getting a Visioneer 7100 USB scanner today from someone for like $10 becaue he doesn't use it. Wonder if I could scan in with that and just use Photoshop or something to make a decent picture... Guess I'll have to experiment.

For $10 I would give it a shot.

 

[Night201]

Originally posted by: sixone

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
I know you can take 35mm negatives to picture places and they can make pictures for you but I've also heard that you can get certain scanners and things like that which allow you to do the same thing at home.

Has anyone used any of these things before that can speak for how well the images turn out? The negatives are so small I'm not sure how much detail a home scanner would pull out of them or if it's better to just take them to the store to get profesional pictures created.

Anyone have experience with this?

Yes. It takes a friggin' long time, very tedious. If your negatives are pristine, you will get beautiful images, but if the negs are the slightest bit dusty or dirty, you will need to do some touching up.

Not if your scanner has Digital Ice! I have a $600 slide scanner and it's awesome!

If anyone needs any help with scanning - let me know. I can scan some negatives for you. I use a Nikon Coolscan V ED . I usually scan the negatives at 4000dpi (the highest res a negative can produce - anything over is a waste) and save them as TIFF files. The come out to about 45-50MB each.