Photo developing from negatives

aerostar

andygb wrote: »

It would be a lot cheaper to buy a negative/slide scanner (Epson V500 maybe for around £100), because a decent macro lens, along with a very good tripod, and a top range digital camera will set you back well over £1000.
If you have negatives, then simply take them along to any decent photo shop, Boots, Tesco, Asda and get them to print up the negatives.

I use a 4+year old cheap Vivitar Digital camera that will focus down to a few cms, it produces very good results from negs/transparencies using my way of doing it and have printed them to A4. All a neg scanner is, is a fixed focus camera anyway.

So please do not put people off with over the top prices like £1000, this is a money saving website, and my tips were designed to follow that philosophy.

googler

googler wrote: »

Everyone seems to be assuming the OP either wants to convert the negatives to digital, or that he/she has a digital camera - neither of which I think are true.

I'll say it again - I think the OP wants to print from the negatives onto photographic paper, not reformat them as digital files.

Whilst Boots, Tesco and Asda may still offer this service, the OP may need to consult with specialist photographic shops (Jessops included), or take advice from a local photographic society or club. Such a society may have their own darkroom facilities and the OP could find that one of their members could do something better than the generic 4x6 from the high-street shops.

Dave_C_2

See my post number 4.

Both Jessops and Boots will give you prints from negatives.

What happens is that they use an expensive negative scanner to produce digital prints. There is still a demand for film photography - this is why you can still buy films!

Dave