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BW negs to digital??
I stumbled across a collection of black and white negatives. It has been
years since I set up and used a darkroom. These ARE NOT art quality shots, but I would very much like to make an 8 x 10 print of several of the shots for a reunion. Is there a way to make a digital POSITIVE copy of negs without going through the usual darkroom process? |
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BW negs to digital??
On 9/24/2008 4:01 PM Gypsy Moth spake thus:
I stumbled across a collection of black and white negatives. It has been years since I set up and used a darkroom. These ARE NOT art quality shots, but I would very much like to make an 8 x 10 print of several of the shots for a reunion. Is there a way to make a digital POSITIVE copy of negs without going through the usual darkroom process? Sure; scan (with either a film scanner [preferable] or a flatbed scanner with a film attachment [not so good], then invert the image. Every decent image-editing program on earth has such a function: one click and you have a positive. -- Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. - Paulo Freire |
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Gypsy Moth wrote:
I stumbled across a collection of black and white negatives. It has been years since I set up and used a darkroom. These ARE NOT art quality shots, but I would very much like to make an 8 x 10 print of several of the shots for a reunion. Is there a way to make a digital POSITIVE copy of negs without going through the usual darkroom process? Of course. Any ordinary print of a negative produces a positive, a "regular print". |
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BW negs to digital??
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"Gypsy Moth" wrote: I stumbled across a collection of black and white negatives. It has been years since I set up and used a darkroom. These ARE NOT art quality shots, but I would very much like to make an 8 x 10 print of several of the shots for a reunion. Is there a way to make a digital POSITIVE copy of negs without going through the usual darkroom process? Most scanning programs which are the step before Photo Shop automatically convert the scan from the negative to a positive on screen image. Once you have the raw scan you adjust it in Photo Shop or other editing program of choice, then its simply a matter of taking the saved file to a one hour lab or uploading it to an online service. Snap fish,Ofoto, Mpix. -- Reality is a picture perfected and never looking back. |
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BW negs to digital??
On 9/24/2008 5:27 PM John J spake thus:
Gypsy Moth wrote: I stumbled across a collection of black and white negatives. It has been years since I set up and used a darkroom. These ARE NOT art quality shots, but I would very much like to make an 8 x 10 print of several of the shots for a reunion. Is there a way to make a digital POSITIVE copy of negs without going through the usual darkroom process? Of course. Any ordinary print of a negative produces a positive, a "regular print". You missed that Mr. (or Ms.) Moth asked about digital images. -- Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. - Paulo Freire |
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