[222mhz] [Packrats] Old Negative conversion?

[George Gadbois]

Bert,
 
I use my HP Officejet Pro L7580 scanner for most of my scanning needs.
Negatives can be scanned as well as photos.  If the resolution is good
enough to suit your needs, any similar scanner will work for you.  For an
example of my results, see the August 2011 issue of QRZ News.
http://www.k3ir.org/QRZ_News/QRZnewsAug2011.pdf on page 6 for the article
"VHF Contesting Firsts".  Most of the photos were old Polaroid prints.
 
For negatives scanned by Coe Camera Shop, see
http://www.k3ir.org/QRZ_News/QRZ_News_December_2009.pdf page 8.   The black
and white pictures were from old negatives borrowed from Lloyd Jury.  I
didn't have the L7580 at that time.  
 
73,
 
George W3FEY
 
 

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Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:04 PM
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Subject: [Packrats] Old Negative conversion?



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