35mm Negative Film Scanning
and Positive Film Strip Scanning
When a camera takes a picture using negative film, it is imaged onto the negative film. It is a reversed (negative) image of what you actually see. If you were using black and white film, whatever was white in the picture is black on the film. Whatever is black in the picture is white on the film. The same goes for color negative film. Whatever was one color in your picture will be just the reverse color on the film. When the film is printed, it is printed as a reverse of what the film was and ends up a positive and the colors are correctly rendered. We scan the negative film and then we have to reverse the colors with our image editing program. We also scan glass plate negatives and positives.
Color-negative films produce color negatives, from which color prints are made. Color-reversal films produce transparent positive imaged film that look like the original scenes you photographed. These are cut into individual frames and mounted and you have color slides for projection.
35mm Negative and Positive Film Strip Scanning
Our Standard Film Strip scanning service includes the following with NO additional cost to you:
- We scan the films at 2400 ppi. You will end up with an image that is usually 10x7" at 300 dpi or ppi.
- This is a high resolution image suitable to make prints and for PowerPoint presentations.
- Individual color correction by our Photoshop® experts
- Individual fade restoration by our Photoshop® experts
- Manual edge cropping by our Photoshop® experts
- Manual Rotation of Portrait oriented images
Restrictions:
For every strip of 35mm negative film or positive film you send us,
every frame will be scanned and you will be charged whether it is
blank or not. We can't skip frames and it takes us time to do
each frame scan.
If your films are larger than 35mm, please check our Medium Format Film Scanning page.
We are sorry but we do not scan the APS negatives. An APS negative is approximately .66 x 1.2 inches (16.7mm x 30.2mm) or only slightly more than half the size of a 35mm negative.