Negatives to digital?

[PRB]

I have a lot of photos from my navy days that I have scanned in. Problem is I scanned in the prints I got from where ever I had them developed. Which means the source for my digital images are 4x6 inch prints (if that), which means they are low resolution digital images. BUT. I have the negatives. Allowing for the possibility that the negatives, the true source, may have more resolution than the prints, how can I “translate” negatives into digital images, with all the source resolution preserved?

[Tako_Kichi]

There are negative to digital scanners available from about $50 upwards to quite a lot of money.

These links have examples from well known and trusted US suppliers.

http://www.adorama.com/l/Printers-and-Scanners/Scanners/Film-and-Photo-Scanners?sf=Title&st=de&term=film-scanner

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/Film-Scanners/ci/1151/N/4077634573/

I've bought a lot of stuff from Adorama over the past couple of years and can personally vouch for them as a great store to deal with.

If you have a DSLR camera there are ways of photographing the negatives too, usually via an adapter tube, lens and slide/negative holder.

[PRB]

Thanks Larry. I'm going to see what I can do with one of those.

[Panther_99FS]

Epson V700 and higher :mixed-smiley-010:

[PRB]

Epson V700 and higher :mixed-smiley-010:

I ordered a Epson V600 from Amazon after some Googling. I'll report back with results when it gets here next week.

[Navy Chief]

Am sure you will be quite happy with the Epson. I bought the previous model V500 about three years ago. Epson makes a good product. NC

[Panther_99FS]

I ordered a Epson V600 from Amazon after some Googling. I'll report back with results when it gets here next week.

I scanned these with my Epson V500 :mixed-smiley-010:


https://c3.staticflickr.com/7/6165/6175675813_95b3877118_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/apHXgc)USAF Miltary Training Instructor (MTI) (https://flic.kr/p/apHXgc) by RedTail_Panther (https://www.flickr.com/photos/redtailpanther/), on Flickr

https://c3.staticflickr.com/7/6170/6202210404_ceab14d3c5_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/as4X59)Pass In Review (https://flic.kr/p/as4X59) by RedTail_Panther (https://www.flickr.com/photos/redtailpanther/), on Flickr

Curtiss SB2C-5 "Helldiver" (https://flic.kr/p/aBXtof) by RedTail_Panther (https://www.flickr.com/photos/redtailpanther/), on Flickr

https://c3.staticflickr.com/7/6183/6109677656_8ff470cd78_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/aiTGiW)Lockheed C-121 "Constellation" (https://flic.kr/p/aiTGiW) by RedTail_Panther (https://www.flickr.com/photos/redtailpanther/), on Flickr

[PRB]

Nice. As long as my negatives are in good shape I should in business. I guess I'd need the V100,000 to compensate for the poor skills of the photographer... :)

[Panther_99FS]

As I understand it, differences are in the dynamic range...

[PRB]

My new scanner came in today. Found a negative of a pic I had previously scanned as a 3X5 print. I'm very excited now. Here are the two. The first is the scanned in print, and the second is the negative I scanned ten minutes ago. Neither image has been edited, except to resize each to 1100x700. I see I have some "artifacts" on the new one, maybe some dust or some such on either the negative or the scanner glass. I scanned the negative at 2400 dpi, which is less than half of what this scanner is capable of. Cool beans.

http://www.prbdatasystems.com/pics/LSFM_p38_1.jpg

http://www.prbdatasystems.com/pics/LSFM_p38_2.jpg

[Panther_99FS]

Good stuff!
There's a setting (which I can't remember that helps remove some of those artifacts)

[PRB]

There is an option called "dust removal". It's pretty good. On the "medium" setting, the big white spot at upper right was reduced to a tiny white spot, and all the rest were gone. Doing a bunch of test runs, seeing what all the other options do...

[Panther_99FS]

There is an option called "dust removal". It's pretty good. On the "medium" setting, the big white spot at upper right was reduced to a tiny white spot, and all the rest were gone. Doing a bunch of test runs, seeing what all the other options do...

Now I remember....."Digital ICE"....

[PRB]

On the V600, you can have the "dust removal" or the "digital ice" option selected, but not both. Strange thing is, I tried the ice option, but it didn't seem to do anything at all. After that, I couldn't get the dust removal option to work anymore either. Obviously more experimentation is needed.