[222mhz] [Packrats] Old Negative conversion?

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

Or you could put a light and ground or very frosted diffusing glass 
behind the negatives and shoot with a digital camera in close up or 
macro mode or with a close up lens. Some cameras will do the negative 
conversion internally, but I know GIMP (free software for Linux or 
windoze) will make the conversion easily and allow any amount of other 
photo manipulation.

73, Jerry, K0CQ

On 7/26/2012 12:02 PM, Bob Fischer wrote:
> Bert,
>
> Maybe Doc would have or have access to something similar like Steve suggested.
>
> 73, Bob
>
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Steven M. Simons
> <ssimons at manitousys.com>  wrote:
>> Bert,
>> Some higher quality flatbed scanners have a 35mm negative holder. I have an
>> HP model that works well.
>> The software also includes  conversions to positives.
>> If you want, I'll send you the model #.
>> 73,
>> SMS
>>
>> Steve Simons
>> Manitou Systems Inc.
>> Tel.203.733.2110
>> ssimons at manitousys.com
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jul 26, 2012, at 12:03 PM, The Soltoff's<bsoltoff at comcast.net>  wrote:
>>
>> In true Packrat, I rarely (if ever) throw anything out.  Recently, while
>> looking for some old prints, I found my (large) box of old negatives
>> (remember them, before the world went digital?).  Some of them even go back
>> to the old 2 x 3-1/2 black and white image negatives
>>
>>
>>
>> I knew that I had been saving them, in hopes of someday wanting to convert
>> them to digital format to be able to print or view as a slide-show.  Well,
>> that day is here.
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm looking for a way (hopefully quick, cheap and easy) to convert these
>> negative images to positives, in digital files.
>>
>>
>>
>> The only thing I can think of to do the picture inversion is to use a
>> printing enlarger (or slide projector, since many are 35mm) projector to
>> invert, then photograph the projected image.  In fact I acquired a printing
>> projector a number of years ago in anticipation of starting the task.  But
>> it would be lots of work (individually loading each negative image), and
>> probably wouldn't yield the resolution that I'm looking for. It also
>> wouldn't accommodate the non-35mm negatives.
>>
>>
>>
>> I figure that someone in the Packrat fraternity either has done this task,
>> or has a good suggestion on how to proceed.
>>
>>
>>
>> All suggestions are welcome.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> K3IUV, Bert
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