[How To] Cheap & Easy Way To Transfer Analog Negatives into Digital Files

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Obviously, My topics are not wanted here.. if you're going to move or lock my topics, then you can remove or lock my account. end of story.
 
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Hi Brokenland,
Sorry, but this is a thread about digitizing negatives, so I am moving the thread to the part of the site that deals with digitizing negatives.
 

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If you are having your film processed at a commercial lab, the easiest way is to have the film scanned at the time of processing. Probably the cheapest way, too, at least in the short term.

Otherwise, the answer depends on your answers to questions like:
- b&w or color negatives?
- what format - 35mm or something else?
- what do you want to with the digital files - share on social media, make prints, or something else?
- do you already own a digital camera?
 

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One thing to be careful about, in getting digital files at the time of film processing, is that scans can be relatively low resolution, only 1-2 MPixels.
 

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To maximize the resolution the cheapest and easiest thing is to digitize with the camera
With a small lightbox and a macro lens or, faling that, with extensions rings, very good results are achieved with BN negatives and slides

I have not tried it with colour negatives but I think that in this case it depends much more on the software

I do not have a laboratory or the possibility of having it right now
I just develop the negatives and digitize them right away. It is an operation that lasts 5 or 10 minutes
 
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