Digitising Old Photo's
 

Hi
I have a load of old (50s/60s/70s/and 80s) aircraft photos. Unfortunately they are in analogue format and I am thinking of converting these to digital format. I have all the originals and they are also scanned on to disks but does anyone know how i can convert all of them into digital format :confused::confused::confused:

SPIT,

Firstly, to clarify.. you say you have some scanned onto disk, by which I assume you mean a HDD or floppy - in which case they are inherently now digital scans of analogue originals... for those that remain either as slides, negs or prints, a good quality film scanner will do the negs/slides but tend to be expensive (but you can sell on ebay once done for a good %age of what you pay for it!) and for prints any decent scanner (Epson, Canon etc) will do a good job...

This might be the blind leading the partially sighted, but surely if you have scanned them and they are on disk, as I've just been doing with some of mine today, then they are digitalised?

This has been covered at great length some time ago. Try searching, and then expand on your post. Right now, it's not making it clear just how far you've got.


I've tried severl ways of getting several thousand prints/negs/transparencies onto my computer. Some have been good, and some far from good.

One problem I had was going for the better Epson Scanner, gave me quite good results with transparencies, but the film holder looked like it had been made by some kid with an Airfix kit. In fact, it it had been, it probably would have been better. I returned it on that basis. I got an Epson 3170 photo refurbished, for about $70. It's fair-ish. Hugely better than the scanners that come with printers.

The dedicated 35mm scanners are really only suitable for professionals that have miles of the stuff to do. So much money, and almost no perceptible difference...except you can see more grain of the film.

I got astonishingly good results by simply photographing a good screen. You can't scan much quicker than that!

I use one of these, cost me £110 on E-Bay and it's excellent. : Plustek OpticFilm 7600i SE Film Scanner review - Digital Camera reviews - TrustedReviews

I realise this post is resurrecting a 6 year old thread, but I would like some up-to-date advice please.

I have negatives and transparencies mainly from the 70s and 80s but including some as old as the 1930s. What is the best way to scan these to computer please. I am currently looking at the Epsom V850 but it is quite expensive.

Thanks

scanning
 

Hello, I had an Epson Perfection with automatic feed,
which worked rather well. I scanned several thousand
prints with it. Then my son 'borrowed' it. I think it could
also scan negatives. I'm sure they would have something
similar today. John