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Family History Documents and Artefacts => FH Documents and Artefacts => Topic started by: munchies on Wednesday 08 May 19 00:07 BST (UK)
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Finally getting around to searching through all the stuff cleared from my dads house and i have found several packets of old negatives I think they are 1920-30s Is it possible to have them reprinted and if so any suggestions on where/how.
Donna
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Sorry I can't help but your location may help others with any recommendations?
Annie
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Finally getting around to searching through all the stuff cleared from my dads house and i have found several packets of old negatives I think they are 1920-30s Is it possible to have them reprinted and if so any suggestions on where/how.
Donna
And what size negative? Are they the older larger almost square type - like the ones the Box Brownies took?
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I found some in my dads things
Took them to a high street camera shop they develpod them ..quite expensive and some were blurry and we dont know who the people in rhem are ?
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There are scanners available, some costing less than £50, although the cheaper ones tend to be for 35mm or less. I have one I bought from Aldi a few years ago for £14, it works quite well for 35mm film and slides.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/photography/buying-guide/film-scanners
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Finally getting around to searching through all the stuff cleared from my dads house and i have found several packets of old negatives I think they are 1920-30s Is it possible to have them reprinted and if so any suggestions on where/how.
Donna
And what size negative? Are they the older larger almost square type - like the ones the Box Brownies took?
I think some are 1950s 2” by2” as I recognise my mum as a child and the others 2” by 3” are 1920s as my grandmother was a nanny and these are photographs of her on holiday with the children she cared for before she got married in 1929 some of these prints are in an album too.
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There are scanners available, some costing less than £50, although the cheaper ones tend to be for 35mm or less. I have one I bought from Aldi a few years ago for £14, it works quite well for 35mm film and slides.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/photography/buying-guide/film-scanners
I considered buying a scanner as it might end up being cheaper but most of them only seem to mention the more common strips of negatives that I remember from childhood not these individual oblong negatives that I have. I might have to have a trip to Curry’s or somewhere to physically look at the scanners.
Thanks though for the link
Donna
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It's about ten years ago now but my friend lent me a scanner which had an attachment for slides - it had several attachments for different slides. Whether these things are still available I don't know, but the results were excellent. It was very tedious, and a lot of them were landscapes and people I don't know, but it was certainly cheaper than paying someone else to do it.
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Have you got a local Camera Club or Photographic Society? Some of them may still have the kit to be able to develop photos?
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Munchies, you can scan your negs as you have done and use an image editor to invert them. Here's one of yours I've quickly inverted using the free editor IrfanView.
Roger
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Oh my word that’s lovely
What kind of app do I need. Am looking at iPad compatible as my computer is not working or is it easier to buy a scanner for photos and do it that way
Am very excited now to see what I can find out
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These days I'm sure you can scan or even just take a photo of the negative and it will invert pretty well in an image editor. Quality will obviously be dependent on your scanner or camera but I should think little will be lost in the inversion process. Scanner will probably be better than photo just because the neg will be completely static as it's scanned. The image editor I mentioned, IrfanView, is a popular free download.
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For an iPad this link may be useful - https://www.picscannergold.com/blog/2017/06/27/film-negatives/
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I bought a cheapish scanner for colour slides and 35mm negatives, but I have a shed load of black & white negatives which wouldn't go into the scanner. An old flatbed scanner had some facility to scan these different size negatives. In the end I went to Jessops and had over 250 scanned and put onto a CD, which I can access on my desktop. Bit expensive, but they did a good job and although i have prints of some of them, there was quite a lot I hadn't seen before.
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Jessops, or any independent camera shop may well be able to assist you at a more reasonable cost. I scanned what felt like hundreds of negatives for a friend ages back, it was very tedious, but they were pleased.
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For an iPad this link may be useful - https://www.picscannergold.com/blog/2017/06/27/film-negatives/
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That link worked amazingly have just spent a couple of hours going through lots of negatives surpassingly the ones from 1920s have come out the sharpest. I have also ordered my self a scanner as it took over 90 mins to scan a picture work out how to edit it and send it from my sons computer to me
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Excellent!
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I like Irfanview - I've used it for years. :)