35 MM Film Negatives

[BudRow]

I have many 35 MM film negatives I am sorting through. I used to have a program that you could scan black & white negatives then invert the negative to positive. Does anyone know if there is a program to do the same with color negatives? Stay Safe, Bud

[VariableRecall]

I have many 35 MM film negatives I am sorting through. I used to have a program that you could scan black & white negatives then invert the negative to positive. Does anyone know if there is a program to do the same with color negatives? Stay Safe, Bud

There are many products that are designed to scan these sorts of things. I'm unsure about reversing the negatives in software, but I'm certain that modern image processing software can do it.

Whatever solution you find, just make sure that you keep your original negatives handy, since who knows what kind of technology could show up that could better preserve the original high quality negatives that you have in your possession.

[high standard 40]

Adobe Photoshop can do what you ask and much more.

[JoeG52]

I got one of these for Christmas and it works great! B&W, color negatives, color slides are all easy to do.

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0781FWMGZ/?coliid=I1I1VXF52754E2&colid=3MO7VSXIHGL9W&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

[Mal Paso]

Photoshop is great but it's $120 a year. The scanners I had in the past came with their own software to reverse color or B&W negs. Silverfast is one that shipped free with the scanner.

[TCLouis]

Kodak SCANZA will do that and slides as qwell as several other film formats.

Not cheap, but if one sees what some of the services charge, it can get to be cheap if one has much to do.

There were others at a lower cost, but I'm thinking this had more usable features and came highly recommended.

[VariableRecall]

Photoshop is great but it's $120 a year. The scanners I had in the past came with their own software to reverse color or B&W negs. Silverfast is one that shipped free with the scanner.

By the way, if you can ever snag a copy of Adobe Premire CS6 (The version right before they went to a subscription) on the secondhand market, you can enjoy using it without having to deal with a subscription. However, the price is pretty steep as keys were limited and people aren't really in the mood to lose out on it.

[Rockzilla]

Photoshop, Lightroom, Vuescan, SilverFast, there's a bunch...

another bad hobby of mine..Photography...35mm and digital

-Rock

[shooterg]

I'm not familiar with the sizes, but I have old family negatives that look to be about 3" square . Is there a whichy out there that converts those ? Hard to even find anybody to make prints from 'em local.

[David2011]

There are scanners on Amazon that will scan medium format film. Your negatives are probably 2-1/4x2-1/4 unless they are very old, like early 1900s.

[rondog]

I'm not familiar with the sizes, but I have old family negatives that look to be about 3" square . Is there a whichy out there that converts those ? Hard to even find anybody to make prints from 'em local.

Sounds like 6x6cm medium format, pretty common and good stuff, used by pros and serious photo buffs. Great quality photos if the camera was a good one.

[GhostHawk]

Irfanview can do it.

https://www.irfanview.com/

Fast and compact ( just 5 MB )
Freeware for non-commercial use
Supports Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 10
32 and 64 bit version
Multi language support
Unicode support
Designed to be simple but powerful

Load any image.
Click the image tab, Negative invert image (All channels)
Save.

Simple and easy to learn. Extremely powerful. Also great for resizing, cropping, etc.

[brassrat]

My father always shot slides from 50s on. I went thru and scanned everything on a new HP scanner, yrs back. Came out really well.

[FredBuddy]

Legacybox.com ?

[Rockzilla]

Irfanview can do it.

https://www.irfanview.com/

Fast and compact ( just 5 MB )
Freeware for non-commercial use
Supports Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 10
32 and 64 bit version
Multi language support
Unicode support
Designed to be simple but powerful

Load any image.
Click the image tab, Negative invert image (All channels)
Save.

Simple and easy to learn. Extremely powerful. Also great for resizing, cropping, etc.

Yeah use it from time to time, have the "portable version" on a thumb-drive

[popper]

35mm slides can be scanned if you have an enlarging scanner.

[gwrench]

Gimp is free and can do it. https://www.gimp.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifwz7vxm4Mc