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This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Negatives? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by sleepy--void@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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So, I was born in 1993 and my mum has a lot of photos on negatives that I'm desperate to see. We've tried some thing she found on eBay but it didn't work. Does anyone here know how we can go about getting them transferred to photos so we can actually view them properly. They are about 20-30 years old.

Perhaps relevant: we are in Essex, England and I can get to London easily so if there's any place that converts negatives to actual photos, that would be rad too.

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[–] DJFisticuffs@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Literally any photo lab can scan and print your negatives. First hit on Google for me was Phoenix photo lab in Rayleigh but there are going to be a ton of others. It will get expensive though.

If you want to do it yourself on the cheap you can get this:

https://www.amazon.com/KODAK-Mobile-Film-Scanner-Built/dp/B07MTKNTPK/ref=sr_1_4?crid=3VSA7MLD58OFC&keywords=kodak+cell+phone+negative+scanner&qid=1699634094&sprefix=kodak+cell+phone+negative+scanner%2Caps%2C67&sr=8-4

There is an associated app that will convert the negative images to positive and color correct for the heavy orange color in the negatives.

Results won't be super high quality but at least you can see the photos.