In article , Ken Hart
wrote:


I've "scanned" old B&W old size negs by putting them on a lightbox and
photographing them with a close-up lens. The results were satisfactory.

if it was done properly, it would have been more than satisfactory.

If you were to sandwich the negs between two pieces of glass, put a
large white paper a couple feet away and light the paper, it might work.
Certainly cheap enough to give it a try.

except for the reflections off the glass.

Doing that with color negs would be trickier, as you would have to get
rid of the orange mask along with doing the reversal.

computers can do that without any effort at all.