Fred McKenzie wrote:
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My fiancee has a 126 cartridge of undeveloped film. Do they still
develop this type of film at places like Walmart/Walgreens,etc? We
have a digital film scanner at work, a Nikon Coolscan LS2000 to be
exact. We have all of the attachments for negative strip scanning.
Can this scanner work with these films? I would have to get the
film
developed first right? I am pretty sure you cannot simply take the
film right from there to the slide scanner.

Mike-

Good luck on finding a place that can handle 126 cartridges! If
your
local Walmart/Walgreens won't touch it, try a real photo shop. Even
if they can't handle it, they will probably know where to send it
for
processing.

Once you get the negatives, you will find they are 35mm wide, and
can
be scanned just as if they were 35mm film. However, the frame is
taller than standard 35mm (which is 24 mm tall), in that there are
no
sprocket holes on one side. As I recall, the frame is square rather
than rectangular. Therefore, your scanner may not see the entire
frame, and will crop either the top or bottom (Whichever does not
have sprocket holes!).

I have a 126 slide handy that has 1 1/32 inch square image window
(26.2 mm), so the frame must be around 28 mm square. Scanned, a
negative would be cropped to about 24 mm X 28 mm, depending on your
scanner.


These were scanned from 126 film, the work done by a HP PhotoSmart
S20. The HP software accommodated the 'reversal' and the size changes
without complaint. The 2500ppi FotoSmart S20 scanner is no longer in
production, but is on eBay for cheap, most times.
http://www.fototime.com/inv/ADA0B155062B12B

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Frank ess