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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Rod Lawton

I've given up on film scanners for my analog negatives because this works better

How to 'scan' black and white film without a film scanner.

I started out in film and I have a big collection of analog negatives and transparencies, particularly 35mm black-and-white negatives. There are still some good shots in there but digitizing them to a decent quality has proved time-consuming and expensive.

I’ve tried flatbed scanners with transparency adaptors, but A4 scanners aren’t able to resolve the extremely fine detail in 35mm originals – even scanners designed specifically for photographers.

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