From digital to film

F994 · Aug 8, 2016

Hello guys, i've been thinking a lot about transferring (exposing) digital pictures on film. As we all know digitalizing film is easy and requires a quite inexpensive equipment, the opposite is mostly rare and as far as I know the only inexpensive tool is Polaroid Propalette that is around 200$ but only works on Windows95 and the software is rare to find (as rare as finding a functioning machine). I'd really like to transfer on film my most significant digital pictures on film to be sure I'll never lose them but I really don't know how.

Do you have any ideas?

farmersteve · Aug 8, 2016

What would be the point of doing that? The best way to ensure you'll never lose them is to make archival prints. There is the whole digital negative thing for making contact prints if you are interested but it's only Black and White.

Moopheus · Aug 8, 2016

You might ask over at the Large Format Forum (http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/), where there are occasional discussions of creating digital negatives. Also, the dpug.org site has a whole subforum on the topic.

Bob Carnie · Aug 8, 2016

LVT recorders can do what you want, they have been around since the early 90's

These negatives, BW and Colour or Positives can be put in your enlarger.
This is how Salgado is working these days.

F994 said:
Hello guys, i've been thinking a lot about transferring (exposing) digital pictures on film. As we all know digitalizing film is easy and requires a quite inexpensive equipment, the opposite is mostly rare and as far as I know the only inexpensive tool is Polaroid Propalette that is around 200$ but only works on Windows95 and the software is rare to find (as rare as finding a functioning machine). I'd really like to transfer on film my most significant digital pictures on film to be sure I'll never lose them but I really don't know how.

Do you have any ideas?

Bob Carnie · Aug 8, 2016

Moopheus said:
You might ask over at the Large Format Forum (http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/), where there are occasional discussions of creating digital negatives. Also, the dpug.org site has a whole subforum on the topic.

Hopefully Sean will sort this out here, as this question is a very valid question and I see no reason not to answer it here.

Moopheus · Aug 8, 2016

Bob Carnie said:
Hopefully Sean will sort this out here, as this question is a very valid question and I see no reason not to answer it here.

Maybe so, but those other discussions still exist and the OP could surely find some useful information there.

David A. Goldfarb · Aug 8, 2016

Take a look at APUG's sister site, DPUG.org for an entire forum currently showing 439 threads about making digital negatives, plus more related material in other subforums.

You could start here:

http://www.dpug.org/forums/f8/

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