Where to scan APS negatives for a reasonable price

TJM

I have some old APS negatives that I'd like to scan. I'd prefer not to do this myself. Any suggestions for places that can provide a high resolution scan? (Not the 1024x768 that passes for high resolution in most high street shops.) Possibly a place that processes APS and also offers the option of scanning as part of processing?

digitalbeginner

You could try

Sheldon Photographic
Strand Street,
Malahide,
Co. Dublin.
Ph: +353 1 845 4021

sheldonphoto@eircom.net,

Dave

PaddyFagan

Oddly enough I had this done recently - in Boots (Liffey Valley). Just checked one of the images now 96 x 96 dpi with an image size of 2144 x 1232 - it was €2.50 for entire (36 exposure) roll to CD.

Paddy

PS I can post up an image from the roll later if you're interested...

digitalbeginner

PaddyFagan wrote:

PS I can post up an image from the roll later if you're interested...

I have about 100 APS rolls I want to scan, hence the knowledge of Sheldon Photographic. I'd love to see the quality of one of those images Paddy,

Dave

JMcL

I realise you don't want to do it yourself, but in case you change your mind, you should be able to pick up a Canoscan FS2710, or FS4000 (latter has higher resolution) for a reasonable price on EBay. They come with an APS adapter which you can use to (manually). wind through the film. I used the 2710 when I was using APS, and I could get decent enough A4 sized (long edge for panoramics) prints from it. For APS it's probably enough, as if you go bigger than that, grain is going to be a problem.

PaddyFagan

digitalbeginner wrote:

I'd love to see the quality of one of those images Paddy,

Here goes:



Paddy

440Hz

Would be very interested in seeing the results of that as well, I have so many images I would love to do. Sick of scanning in the prints with crap quality.

TJM

PaddyFagan wrote:

Here goes:



Paddy

Hmmm. Two megapixels isn't great - but then again the quality of an image on APS is never going to be fantastic. (There's a lot of grain on this image.)

PaddyFagan

TJM wrote:

There's a lot of grain on this image.

In fairness to boots - I checked the original prints of these, and they're grainy too.

Yeah, if I'd known then what I know now about the capabilities of film I might not have been so enamoured with my APS camera. That said, it was a great little camera (and a gift from my now wife) and without it I probably won't have developed enough interest to read up about film etc in the first place.

Paddy

digitalbeginner

PaddyFagan wrote:

In fairness to boots - I checked the original prints of these, and they're grainy too.

Yeah, if I'd known then what I know now about the capabilities of film I might not have been so enamoured with my APS camera.

The problems were with APS film, not film as such. The APS frame size is much smaller than 35mm which is one of the reasons it shows so much grain at relatively small enlargements. Then again, Kodak invented it, and they were responsible for the hideous 110 film format too!

I'd be happy enough with that quality for shots that are mostly snaps anyway. I'm going up to Boots this weekend (I'm only down the road in Lucan) to save me a bunch of time scanning and processing. I'd much rather be in the pub

Thanks for the heads-up Paddy,

Dave