Epson Scan | Turning Your Old Film Negatives Into a Digital Archive | Detailed Overview
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ค. 2024
- Many of us have thousands of old film negatives and these contain irreplaceable memories. However, no one can see them hidden away in drawers and if anything happens to them they are gone forever. It only makes sense to turn them into a digital archive. Doing this makes your old photos easy to share and making digital copies keeps your memories safe.
There are services available that will do this for you, but they may be expensive and you have no control over the process. Doing it yourself may appear daunting at first, but using a suitable scanner and the free software that comes with the scanner isn't actually too difficult.
In this video I will take you through the entire end-to-end process using my Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner and the free Epson Scan software that came with the scanner.
00:00 Introduction
01:15 Loading Negatives Into The Holder
03:36 Putting The Negatives Into The Scanner
04:36 Quick Overview Of The Epson V600 Scanner
06:10 Epson Scan | Full Auto Mode
12:01 Creating A Folder Structure For Your Scanned Images
13:18 Rating Images
13:58 Scanning For Better Quality
14:25 Epson Scan | Office Mode
14:42 Epson Scan | Home Mode
18:10 Epson Scan | Professional Mode
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HI - funny, I've been here before, about 20 years ago when I got my Epson Scanner (V500) and wanted to rescan 465 rolls of film I had taken over the years. All the instructions back then left one thing out: How to do a massive amount of scanning fast. But I also still had all the prints (in sorted envelopes) so I bought another Epson scanner: FF 680W FastFoto. You can stick a whole batch of pictures (36 per roll) and run them through in about 30 seconds!! - But now I realized that the quality of the scan depended on the print. It was acceptable for many but suboptimal for a lot. Now I am going back to my flatbed scanner, pull ONE envelope with the negs for that roll and compare each picture. I can do all or just a few from that roll. In most cases the flatbed scan is better, but a lot slower. But I am only doing this for a select few I really need to preserve. So much time saved and out the money for a second scanner. So I am finishing my digital archiving 20 years later.
I had to do a lot, but not as many as 465 rolls. That's a lot of film! I wasn't aware of the FF 680W, but being able to scan 36 frames in 30 seconds is impressive. It took me a long time loading 12 frames at a time into the holder. Twenty years isn't bad! I left all my negatives in the UK when I moved to Thailand 21 years ago. I managed to retrieve some around seven years ago. If I ever manage to retrieve the rest, which I hope I do, I will have another mammoth scanning session. It takes a lot of time, but it's worth doing. Thanks for your feedback!
Thanks for this video as it has helped this newbie a lot.
I'm glad it helped! Thanks for letting me know.
I have one of these I picked up for $10 US, haven’t tried it yet. I get my scans done at a local lab with a Noritsu scanner. Nice tutorial, thanks!
Wow, what a bargain! The lab I use offers a scanning service, but I enjoy doing it myself and I have complete control. It also saves a few bucks! Thanks for your comment.
Very well explained! I have some old (1950's 60's) negatives that measure approx 90mm x 57mm, do you know if this scanner can do these?
Thanks! The scanner comes with two holders. One is for 35mm negatives and slides. The other one (the one you want is for 120 medium format). It has one long slot, which is approximately 57mm x 220mm. If your frames are cut individually, you will therefore be able to scan two at a time. It might take a while, depending on how many you have, but these big negatives are nice to work with and much better than 35mm.
Thanks for the reply!@@PhilUKNet
@@adehyett3224 Pleasure!
I'm planning to get this scanner to digitize everything (prints, slides, negatives). All my 35mm negatives are in uncut curly rolls. You mentioned in your other video that it's a fiddly job to get those in the plastic holder, but to me it seems it's not even possible, there's no space to let the film hang out on either sides. (?)
Could I scan the uncut rolls with this scanner?
You could try, but I think it will be very tricky and you may damage the film. The holder holds 35mm negative strips of 6 frames long. When I get film developed, I ask the shop to cut the film into strips of 6 frames. Unless you have a major objection to cutting the film, this is what I would suggest you do.
Does the selection of the Thumbnail option enable the 6 pics of 35mm negatives to be spliced separately or is that just an inbuilt feature of the v600? Thanks.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but in Fully Auto mode the software will automatically crop the six frames and scan in separate images - one file for each frame. It normally does a pretty good job, but gets it wrong sometimes and each image will have slightly different dimensions. In Home and Professional modes you get to see a preview first and then you can apply your own crop before scanning. If you meant something else, please let me know.
@@PhilUKNet Thanks for clarifying. I was helping someone yesterday on an Epson V370 from memory, but didn't have time to check the instructions. Being a complete novice, while scanning his slides we had put the white panel on, and hence defeated the whole purpose, as we were confused. Thanks so much for the video instructions.
@Brian Boyce No problem. I don't scan negatives that often and I forget the details, but I can always do a test scan to clarify things. When you select negatives in the scan software it needs to use the upper light source and will give an error message if the white panel is still in place.
@@PhilUKNet I have my own 35mm negatives but I also have stand-alone black and white negatives from mum & dad's collections - look to be about 2 and a quarter inches by 3 and a quarter inches. I'm not entirely sure how to handle these, but I suspect same process but without the 'cradle'.
@@brianboyce5828 The big negatives are medium format (120) professional film. Very nice! My V600 came with two negative holders. One is for 35mm and slides. The other is for medium format. It has one very long slot which is 2 and quarter inches wide. You should be able to use that if you also have one. If not, you should be able to buy one separately. Better to use the negative holder, which will keep the negatives flat and in the correct position.