Negitive scanner

[funkychunkymonkey]

Does anyone know of a negitive scanner that does the old square negitives?

 

[Gianna'sPapa]

Many scanners come with the attachments to that. We have a several year old Epson V500 Photo scanner that does a very good job. It is one of the projects we are working on to go back and digitize old prints, slides and negatives. Below is a scan of a hard copy photo from last summer.


Dolphin 3 by Gianna'sPapa, on Flickr

 

[funkychunkymonkey]

WoW! I was led to believe I needed a special scanner! I wonder if it would work with my aunts kodak photo printer and scanner. Guess Ill have to read the book thanks for saving me money!

 

[photo_chick]

My epson 4870 has an 8x10 transparency area. I still shoot medium format and scan the negatives all the time.

 

[Gdad]

WoW! I was led to believe I needed a special scanner!

You do- flatbed scanners need a built in illuminator to scan transparencies. I have a V500 also and it has an illuminator just large enough to scan 2x 120/220 (old square) negatives at a time.

 

[Daisy14'sDH]

I have an old scanner with the negative attachment as well. WE never unpacked it since we moved 3 years ago.

Its funny that this topic comes up now, yesterday a good friend was over for a cigar inquiring whether we still owned the negative scanner, the thing cost me nearly $400 years ago! I bought it for the DW who was way more into photography than me...

 

[Gianna'sPapa]

I just checked and they are still selling the Epson V500 for around $150 both on Amazon and B & H. It has the built in illuminator for negatives and slides.

 

[Frantasmic]

brookstone used to sell a negative only scanner.

I've seen their scanner for about $85.00. The one I got a few years back only worked with XP and I don't think it was updateable. My XP machine doesn't have a lot of memory, even though I've added some over the years but it is in a playroom and is really just a backup to the laptops my kids have.

That scanner took FOREVER to scan one negative. It just wasn't worth it. I'd find one that let's you slide 2-4 negatives in at a time.

 

[Kies99]

I can't speak to the V500, but I have the V700 and I'm quite happy with it. Once I got the settings to where I liked them, it's now a simple one touch and go scanning. Quality is really good as well.

 

[seashoreCM]

Depending on what camera took it, a medium format square negative (120, 620, 6x6cm) can have enough picture detail for a 14 inch square print. Maybe even more. All negatives should be scanned at 3000 dpi more or less (2400 dpi absolute minimum) and in the case of the medium format negative, you can expect it will take at least as long as scanning an 8x10 inch or 8-1/2x11 print at 300 dpi.

You can scan the negative itself at 200 to 500 dpi to make pictures to put on web sites and this will scan quite fast, except that these pictures are not suitable for archive purposes.

There are a lot of combination regular and film scanners with a lift top (flatbed scanners) but you need the film scanning portion down the middle to be a little over 2 inches wide to do the square negatives. Check the instructions and specifications before buying.

 

[funkychunkymonkey]

Epson V500 for around $150.

Thats not bad price wise! I have tons of sqaure negitives from the 60's, Some 110 negitives from the 90's, and 35mm from the last few years. I love the fact I can get them on the computer so easily. If I have the negitives on the computer can I make them into prints? A ton of them are B&W and the more recent ones are color. I really appreacate all the advice I get from you guys!

 

[photo_chick]

Depending on what camera took it, a medium format square negative (120, 620, 6x6cm) can have enough picture detail for a 14 inch square print. Maybe even more. All negatives should be scanned at 3000 dpi more or less (2400 dpi absolute minimum) and in the case of the medium format negative, you can expect it will take at least as long as scanning an 8x10 inch or 8-1/2x11 print at 300 dpi.

You can scan the negative itself at 200 to 500 dpi to make pictures to put on web sites and this will scan quite fast, except that these pictures are not suitable for archive purposes.

There are a lot of combination regular and film scanners with a lift top (flatbed scanners) but you need the film scanning portion down the middle to be a little over 2 inches wide to do the square negatives. Check the instructions and specifications before buying.

Ok... I'm going to disagree that all negatives need to be scanned at any set DPI. Just choose the correct output size in the software, or do the math. Save yourself time and trouble and only scan at the resolution you actually need.

inches x DPI = pixels. It tells you exactly what you need to scan at.

A 120mm negative scanned at 2400 DPI will yield a 5760 x 5760 pixel image, making a 19.2 x 19.2 inch square print. If you need it that big, by all means, scan it that big. But if you only plan on maybe making an 8x8 print or only want the image for digital purposes or something like that, well 2400 DPI would be overkill. Not to mention a needlessly ginormous file.

Epson V500 for around $150.

Thats not bad price wise! I have tons of sqaure negitives from the 60's, Some 110 negitives from the 90's, and 35mm from the last few years. I love the fact I can get them on the computer so easily. If I have the negitives on the computer can I make them into prints? A ton of them are B&W and the more recent ones are color. I really appreacate all the advice I get from you guys!

The V500 is a great scanner. It's what's in one of the labs I work in. And yes, you can make prints from the scans as long as you plan for that when you scan. On the V500 you jsut put in your desired output size and it does the math for you.