Transferring Film Photographs onto Digital Media

film photographs So I’ve got a ton of negatives that I want to put onto disc.

After writing the post yesterday I started to sort through one of the two bags I have full of film photographs and negatives, and I had a really good time doing it. I enjoyed looking back at photographs I must have taken years ago and since ‘going digital’ I’ve not looked at them (hence the two bags and hidden under a table).

And that’s made me eager to get some of them at least onto disc so I can add them to my digital photo library. The reason I say disc is that I don’t have a scanner anymore, in my great wisdom I got rid of it when I went to digital photography…doh!

So I have a toss up between buying a scanner with a negative attachment or look into getting them scanned at a photo processing shop. I must admit at the moment I am leaning towards the photo processing because of time, and limit it to the best ones for the moment.

My local supermarket has a photo processing shop and they can scan both prints and negatives and put them onto disc, in an hour! So it’s just the cost, but that shouldn’t be too bad if I’m just using a selection to start with.

I don’t want to buy a scanner at the moment because I am saving up for a DSLR, so this seems like a good compromise because I’m really looking forward to getting them onto my computer.

I’ll let you know how it goes…

Mandy

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