How do I download photos on to a website

geek84

Hi Folks

I have some photos that I have taken using an ordinary 35mm camera. I would like to download them on to a website.

Can someone please tell me the procedure for doing this?

Do I need to take the photos again using a digital camera in order to download them on to the website?


Many Thanks

lucylucky

What website - it usually tells you how you can upload them, not download that is a different thing.

You will need to make your snaps digital somehow, e.g. scanning them

petecarter

You want one of these things ---> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Veho-VFS-004-Negative-Slide-Scanner/dp/B00190WB2K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298544578&sr=8-1

You put the negatives on and it scans them into a file on your computer as if you had taken them with a digital camera. Not sure about this model in particular, probs worth looking at a few.

Hope this helps!

steve1980

geek84 wrote: »

Hi Folks

I have some photos that I have taken using an ordinary 35mm camera. I would like to download them on to a website. I assume you mean upload?

Can someone please tell me the procedure for doing this? Scan them in to your computer, do you have a printer/scanner/copier or does someone you know have one?

Do I need to take the photos again using a digital camera in order to download them on to the website? If you take a picture of the picture the quality will be terrible. Again I assume you mean upload to a website, rather than download


Many Thanks

Hope that helps

petecarter

steve1980 wrote: »

Hope that helps

Do you agree that the best thing for them to do is to buy a photo scanner for use with the nagatives? Everything else would give a pretty bad result.

lucylucky

petecarter wrote: »

Do you agree that the best thing for them to do is to buy a photo scanner for use with the nagatives? Everything else would give a pretty bad result.

Depends how many pics are involved and if it is worth the investment and what quality the OP is after.

You can get decent scans off good quality prints but as I say depends what quality the OP requires.

dogmaryxx

Next time have your film developed and put onto a CD at the time of processing.

Dave_C_2

If you only have a few that you want to upload to a website then take your negatives to Jessops Photography. Costs about £5 for a CD from a 36 exposure set of negatives. I have "mix and matched" strips from different films and they did this without complaint. That was a couple of years ago, please confirm that that is still the case.

The big plus is that they use expensive purpose-built negative scanners and you do get exceptional quality digital pictures from your negatives.

Dave

petecarter

time for the op to reply now i think!!

its good that you can go into a store to have negatives turned into digital files. If they are doing a collection of 1000 photos though it will be worth buying a scanner, especially if they are still taking photos on film. Personally I would avoid scanning the photos themselves in using a conventional scanner but hey, if they only need a handful for a website it would be good enough!

WhiteChristmas

petecarter wrote: »

Personally I would avoid scanning the photos themselves in using a conventional scanner

If it's only for display on a website then a scan of a print (and a fairly low resolution one at that) is perfectly suitable.

Also, from the tone of the question, geek84 doesn't sound likely to be au fait with the steps required to turn a negative scan into a usable shot.

petecarter

petecarter wrote: »

Personally I would avoid scanning the photos themselves in using a conventional scanner but hey, if they only need a handful for a website it would be good enough!

Completely agree!