Transferring Film Photographs onto Digital Media

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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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What do you do with all those old negatives?

The last couple of weeks I have been moving some bedrooms around in our house. The obvious problem with that is sorting through all the extra stuff that you accummalate over the years.

While I was doing this I came across two bags full of my film negatives from when I used a 35mm film camera. There’s loads of them along with a lot of old prints. I love looking back at old photographs they stir up some forgotten memories.

But what am I going to do with them all. In this day and age it’s all about clutter free living and keeping every thing to a minimum, so it would be nice to organise them so they can be easily accessible but also be able to tidy away again nicely. I’ll have to have a look around.

The other thing on my mind is making sure that these old photographs become timeless, and don’t degrade or become damaged which I’ve heard some early colour photos can do. So it makes sense to transfer them all to digital media because I can then use them. Just because I shoot on digital camera now doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy and use my old 35mm shots.

There’s no definitive break between the two different types of photography for me they should be able to blend together. And transferring all my old shots onto my computer whether I scan them in or get a lab to put them onto discs, then that will finally merge my two phases of photography.

Mandy

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