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Colour negatives to digital
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Mar 3, 2007, 05:56 PM
 
I have eMac
Have a lot of old colour negatives that I would like to load in, then use Photoshop and load to disk
What is available at reasonable price?
     
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Mar 3, 2007, 06:12 PM
 
I recommend looking for a used Nikon film/slide scanner with a USB interface. A dedicated film/slide scanner will give better results than a flatbed scanner with a transparency adaptor.

A few years ago I picked up an old Nikon LS-1000 with a SCSI interface to use with my old G3 desktop. It worked very well to get all those old family slides into digital format.
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Mar 3, 2007, 06:26 PM
 
Ok with the Nikon. I know it does slides, but what about colour or b&w negatives. What software is needed?
     
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Mar 3, 2007, 07:01 PM
 
Scanner software (and often photo software like Photoshop or VueScan) frequently includes a function to produce a "negative" color version of a scanned image. That's all it takes, really, to give you the "real color" version that you want.
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