Film Scanner

I have developed a slide film (with a cross process), so i have negative image on my slide film. I wonder if it possible you use the normal scanner, not those fancy film scanner to scan a image on film to my laptop. So what film scanner should i buy and how much for, I am just a beginner?

I have had some success by strongly backlighting a frame of film and then just scanning it like a print.

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how do i use a film scanner? how do you load it? Sorta. I have slides for my photography class. The slide scanner is a Minolta D'image Scan Duel II. I'm still confused as to how I work this thing on a Mac... the little green light on the scanner keeps blinking at me, and when I do the wrong thing (everything I've tried thus far), the computer ends up freezing. I know that there is a slide holder... and when it functions properly, the machine is supposed to make noise and take in the slide holder slowly - not me shoving it in there...

I am not sure if I understand what you mean, but I have an HP 4070 Photosmart Scanner and it has a compartment where I can scan film and slides. It is a smaller door built into the larger flat bed cover and it has slots to slide the film or slides into. There is a special mirror-type backing that allows them to show up in a scan.The plastic part that holds the film slides out so you can put slides or film strip in place and you re-insert it so that the top of the frame/photo is towards the back side of the scanner (not the front where the buttons are). When the door is open they appear upside down. After you slide them into the slots, you close it and scan them as you would a regular photo. Doing it this way will prevent an upside down scan.

No, my scanner does not have a film scanning attachment. I recently got a roll of slide film developed and I am wondering how I could scan them without having to buy a separate film scanner.

You CAN scan in film and slides with a flat bed scanner, but... your images most likely will not have a good over all color cast. . What you need, is to have a light source from the top down than can overwhelm the light up..! . A cardboard box the size of the glass of your scanner, covered inside with tin foil and a bright light (or two) inside WILL give you results. How good tho is the question. You want the box to be at least 12 to 18 inches tall and the lights at very the top of the box. The tinfoil is to act like a diffuser for the lights so there are no hot spots. The inside could also be sprayed with flat white paint or covered with white paper. . I built something like this years ago and it worked excellent for BW film but color film had such a bad color cast it was imposable to correct for. However, today, you have 100 watt cool neon lamps that may work better than the hot incandescents I used 12 years ago. . This may require a little experimentation but I know it will work. The question is - how well will it work for you and how bad will the color cast be..? . I do scanning @ 40 cents a scan (frame) with a $10 start up fee for 35mm, whatever rez you want. .

i really dont like when i have to leave my film in the hands of some wierd stranger at walmart, and hope that they know how to develop, and i really dont know how to use a dark room? is their any printer, &or scanner that can take POSITIVE film and make it into eiteher neggative or into a picture on my computer? positive film by the way. the film that cannot go into the light because it would be ruined. please help?

First off, wow. Second off, LOL. With that out of my system, what you're calling "positive film" is not positive film - it's undeveloped film. Positive film is slide film, and requires development to make a positive. Regular film is negative film, or print film - what you have. It will also have to be developed before it can be scanned, printed, or anything else. Leaving your film at a store is not a dangerous procedure. The tape the end of your film to a card, stick it into a machine, and it comes out the other end developed. They can then print or scan your negatives. The user has almost no interaction with your film or negatives in the development process. Really, since you seem to have no idea what you're talking about, let them do it - trust me they're safer than leaving it in your own incapable hands. You can buy film scanners and scan your own negatives - but somebody still has to develop it first for you to be able to do that.

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