Negative Scan Experiments: Yosemite

Usually on the first day of the month I would post about my Hive progress, but Hivestats seems to have crapped out on me. Soooo I guess I'll post something worthwhile πŸ˜‚

Over the past few months I've been scanning negatives from my stash. Some of them I have done with my Nikon, others have been with my not so good scanner.

This batch was on my not so good scanner. Most of my scans have been 35 mm but these are APS.

APS or Advanced Photo System was a late 90's Kodak product. It used film which was only 24 mm wide. The cameras could take three different photo sizes: 4x6 Classic, 4x7 High Definition, and 4x11 Panorama.

I had a point and shoot APS camera when I went to Yosemite in 2000. I actually dropped it while climbing Half Dome, and miraculously it survived the 100+ ft fall with barely a scratch.


I actually found it in my closet yesterday and now it's hanging out with my Brownies.

While I hate opening up the canisters because it's impossible to put them back together, I figure it's nearly as impossible to get them scanned elsewhere. So I may as well take care of it myself.

I scanned these at 1200 dpi, which is the best my scanner will do. Usually I use my phone to backlight them but this time I decided to try scanning without it. I then used Krita and PicsArt for post processing. I decided to go with black and white since color doesn't work well with this scanning process.

I think they came out well enough considering.

Still not sure what this is a picture of...

I really need to get an Epson V600 like @darth-azrael has, though I'm not sure it comes with an APS negative holder. Although perhaps I could find one out there somewhere. Until then, I'll just enjoy the results I get with what I have!

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I see some captures/scans that would go pretty well and beautifully, printed on a wall. Amazing to see your camera survived the fall, quite impressive. But hey, back then it was paramount to build quality stuff and not products that survive no more than two days after the warranty expires :)))

Also, a nice reminder for me to scan the remaining few B&W films with photos I took more than 30 years ago, hehhe.

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Yeah, I dare say my Nikon would not survive such a fall. Those old Kodaks were sturdy!

Glad I could be a reminder to scan your films 😊 Hopefully I will have a new scanner eventually. Although I do like the sloppy effects I get with this one.

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True! The more sophisticated they get, the more fragile they become.
My first camera was all mechanical, of course film, all manual too.

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