02-18-2025, 11:11 AM
(02-10-2022, 01:03 AM)RealGomer Wrote: I've been cleaning out my deceased mother's things and I found some old film negatives. How old? They were taken with a Kodak Brownie camera and the negatives are 2.5" x 3.75", one per picture. It is black & white film. Is there software that will capture these negatives so I can "print" the pictures digitally to share with my brothers? I already have a Canon CanoScan flat bed scanner and GIMP 2.10.30. BTW - Canoscan treats the negative as a negative strip and doesn't capture part of the image. Loverly.
Thank you.
My Canoscan 8400F came with three transparency adapters - one will take strips of film with a visible area width of approx 2.25" and a maximum length of approx 8.5". If you have this with your scanner I would use it with the Canon supplied Canoscan Toolbox to scan the negatives and then save them to (lossless) TIFF files that you can import into GIMP to process (crop to size, convert to a positive, remove scratches etc). Personally I would have CanoScan Toolbox just save the captured image without attempting to convert it to a positive - you can then try different methods in GIMP to see which works best for you. Also scan at the highest resolution - you can reduce the size in pixels later if you wish or reduce the file size by converting to jpg but once information has been discarded in these ways you can't get it back (keep the original scan file)