How to scan 35mm or 120 negatives without a scanner.
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- čas přidán 28. 01. 2018
- My cheap and easy home made method of scanning film to digital. I use an iPhone, Two cans of tuna, a cardboard box, two picture frames and an iPad.
Yes this might look silly but it works quite well for me. Most people already have these items on hand so if you need some film scanned via a very easy method, it is certainly worth a try.
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I have been a photographer for over 45 year, spent big bucks for gear and you use two tuna cans, 2 sheets of glass and a box . You are the MAN .
Thank you for the kind words and thanks for watching.
I had to laugh when you said, "Now ya take 2 cans of Tuna…", but it works! Great tutorial man!
Agreed. This guy is so endearing and smart!
13 feet of 20lb monofilament fishing line, 1 Flowbee and two cast iron skillets
Do you recommend white or pink tuna?
Me too! Love this! ♥️
it's brilliant though! lol
We need more people like you on youtube
Thank you for commenting and thanks for the kind words of encouragement. I am happy you liked the video.
Seriously
Thanks
I absolutely agree 👍🏻
Jeffery A Howard yeah this truly is a great video, AND your accent sounds just like my dads side of the family in the south it’s great👍🏼
In the UK we had a children's programme screened in the 60s and 70s called Blue Peter, one of my favourite programmes when I was a kid. They would do things like this twice a week., showing us young children how to make toys and games out of cardboard and empty squeezy bottles that held cleaners and dishwashing liquids, toliet rolls, sellotape and anything else around the house. I loved it. You've just taken me back to my childhood and you've helped me solve my own negative scaneing problem. All power to you. Great tutorial. I especially like the tuna cans solution.
Thank you for watching and commenting. I really appreciate the positive feedback!
I just spent a whole frustrating evening trying to setup my camera on a tripod, putting film in a specially designed loader/holder (which sucked) and taking shots of my negatives. And here you are with a box and two cans of tuna. I love it! Thank you sir for pulling me out of a rabbit hole!
I have to say that i was looking to buy a $150 to $190 scanner... but this i just Aswesome, and no i'm not being sarcastic, it works, and you sir have saved me good money, thank you :)
this man is a genius who saved me 200 euros
you could pass as a look-alike for Ron Swanson from the TV show Parks and Recreation LOL!
Thank you for the compliment! I like Ron Swanson. My wife says the resemblance is Tom Selleck, but I will gladly take Ron Swanson! Thank you for watching and commenting!
lol
its funny cause I imagine Ron Swanson doesnt use a digital camera and develops his own film
For home and family use, it sounds fantastic. Your explanation of how color works is great.
One of the Best Practical CZcams I have ever seen on any subject. Great way to prototype and use what is around you. You saved me money. I was going to get my film developed with print for $12 dollars and now I can just get the Negatives to $6.
This is amazing!! I've saved so much than buying a pricey scanner and even developing in stores! Thank you so much!
I've been doing something like that but I've had the pixels from the ipad bleeding through. Thanks for the tips!!! I have larger negatives than any of the machines that I've found, but don't want to spend so much money on a new expensive scanner that will do them. This looks perfect!
Try the tip just above your comment, it may help with pixels bleeding through: put a white plastic garbage bag or few plastic bags (taught) on the ipad screen before the glass
What a fantastic video. Everything is so simple and basic, and even someone as lo-tech as myself found it so easy to use. I can't thank you enough, it has saved me a fortune!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching.
You are the kind of man I want to be for my children. A practical genius.
Achek Yule Thank you for commenting, and thank you for the kind words. I’m glad you enjoyed the video.
It is rare to see an instructional video that marries common sense, intelligence and humor. Well done, Mr. Howard!
Thank you for watching and thanks for the kind words.
Jeff, you made my day. I'm going to make one of these tomorrow. All tutorials should be this much fun
I am glad you enjoyed the video, and thank you for commenting.
Sir, you are my people! I'm notorious for doing stuff like this, but I had not yet figured out a good way to digitize my negs and slides, and you've nailed it! Thanks so much for this video, and for getting right to the point! So many videos start out with 5 minutes of yakking about nothing.
Great job! You're a genius! :)
Thank you Jolynn! That is a wonderful comment. I am glad this scanning method helped you.
Definitely my kinda guy/method. @@JefferyAHoward
thank you so much for your tips, my dad was a keen photographer, he developed his own films and printed them, I have quite a few 59 plus year old negatives which i would love to share with the family and at last after seeing your video I might be able to do this. Thank you again
You are very welcome and thank you for watching and commenting!
My good man that was a terrific solution, not to mention free. It’s so quick compared to any other process that I’ve tried. Thanks so much for your efforts.
Thank you so much! My film was so old that no store would scan it for me. I've now been able to salvage it myself into some (not too terrible) looking images from my vacation!
I love this, a guy with real ingenuity, this is for many people on a budget a real WORKING solution, thanks for sharing!
I love all the household solutions for scanning negatives there are. The low-cost, store-bought slide scanners just don't do these old priceless photos justice. I used a tripod head, with a clamp (so I could turn it 90 degrees), attached it to an LP record stand, and set a daylight simulator (for enhancing mood during the winter months) underneath it. I just like seeing other people's solutions so I might improve my own. Well done!
Jeffery. You are love. You are light. But seriously, thank you for this tutorial!
This is brilliant. I have a scanner but it's a hassle to unpack and use, and the phones are so good now that the images will be totally useable. You solved the 'squareness' problem so simply. Thanks!
Does it work for 120 negs as well?
Those cans of tunas are legit game changers
Give this man a gold medal !! 🏅
Thx,Mr Jeffrey. I have tons of negatives,both colour ñ b/w. I will try this. I have seen other scanner procedures but this one is easy and triable. Lemme see,thx. Your pic looked really good ,I must say. Clear, with good tone and texture. Memories are so priceless and valuable. Moments don't come back but still through these pictures one can relive them. That's magic.thx.
Hello from Ireland. Thank you Jeffery - great video. Simple engineering - I love it!! Super helpful. I hope you and yours are well. Stay safe.
Jeffrey you are a genius. In a just world you would be able to retire as a minor national hero on an idea this simple and effective.
Good ol' Yankee ingenuity is alive and well. I love it. Thanks a million, Jeff.
Jeffery, you're a star. Take a bow! Thank you for a great, informative video.
Wow, thanks! I am glad you liked the video and thank you so much for the kind words!
This is exactly what I needed to digitize the negatives my late father brought back from India during WWII that he took with, I think, a Brownie camera. You can imagine what this might mean to me. And I love DIY that's cheap and works and is faintly ridiculous but did I mention it works? I couldn't even find a commercial unit at any price that seemed to fit the job. Well done!
Thanks for commenting. I am happy this helped you to scan your photos.
Real men of genius!!!! Upon seeing your hat, I was like this guy definitely drives an old Grand Cherokee Woody. I was mildly disappointed to see the black and white of the Commander lol. Regardless, you are awesome! I teach high school film photography (which is quite difficult during covid) and this saved my remote learners and is going to allow them to scan at home without major investment. I gave all of my virtual students the Ilford mailing envelopes from B&H and I failed to realize that physical prints were not included in the price, so you my friend saved the day. Thank you!
Thank you so much for watching, and for the kind words.
oh, my GOSH! i just found a cache of old negatives from my childhood and before and I've been trying to figure how tf to cheaply get them digitised ... and i find you 😁
thank you SO MUCH for sharing this info with the rest of us! ♥️
You're so welcome!
Thank you so much for posting this technique. I just used it ....and took and awesome picture of my dad from 1971 off an old slide. And it came out beautifully.
That is awesome! Thank you commenting!
This is so simple and yet so effective! Thank you. The tuna can part made me laugh, but that's some great improvising!
"Regular" tuna cans, priceless! LOL! Love this, many thanks for sharing this great tutorial!
I don’t like tuna, so I’m going to try a can of peas later. It should be about the same height as two tuna cans?
Total genius tons of old negatives to do and I can't wait to try this
I thought this was a piss take at first. Its pure class. Some man
I was told today each scan would cost me $5 :-o Very happy to try with some cans of tuna!
$5 dollars? I have thousands of old family negatives, I took 4 negatives to a professional and I spent $50 dollars! I then bought a Sharper image machine for $59 and did all of my 35 mm film and I was happy with that but it did not do the old negatives which was my ultimate goal. Will be trying this method out later this week and hopefully save thousands of dollars. Wish me luck!
@@nancypluskids how did your experience go? Very time consuming? Does it work? I hope it turned out great!
THIS is what I was looking for! Incredibly ingenious! Thanks for sharing this!
Brilliant! Just brilliant! I was looking to scan some negatives and thought, there has to be a FASTER and CHEAPER way to do a bunch. This checks all the boxes, and the investment is a couple cans of tuna (cat food in my case)! Thank you for taking the time to post this.
What a brilliant tutorial, thank you for all your time spent designing and putting the video together, good man. Subscribed
Thanks for the sub! Thanks for watching and thanks for the kind words!
This is by far the BEST practical advice I have ever seen on CZcams regarding slide scanning. And it WORKS. I have over 500 slides that I took on a trip to England, Scotland and Wales 25 years ago. At the time, I had 100 of the slides converted to Kodak PhotoCD, a process no longer available. Somehow I managed to misplace the PhotoCD and have no other digital copies of the 100 slides. So as I was contemplating sending a couple hundred of my precious slides off to ScanCafe and laying out another $100+, I came across this video. Using a light table (which I already owned), a ceramic coffee mug for the stand-off, and my iPhone 7 Plus, I was able to confirm that Jeff's technique works very nicely. I haven't tried this with film negatives, but I'm guessing a small pane of glass added to the mix to keep the negative flat is all that's missing. Thanks Jeff!
Thank you for commenting. It is great to hear this scanning method is helping somebody to preserve and enjoy their film photos or slides.
In case this helps others, I had to remember before snapping the shot to select the optimal exposure. On the iPhone it's a matter of touching the spot that you want to be be the middle of the exposure curve. It can make a big difference in overall quality of the digital transfer.
Can’t wait for the winter with more time to experiment with the old slides I have. I enjoy trying to work out practical solutions, I’m 83 so it was what we had to do all those years ago here in the UK, I guess it was no different “over there”? I thank you for the video, I think it’s brilliant.
I love you, Jeffrey! You are a "hands down" genius! Because of YOU I'm revisiting slides of my artwork from @35 years back, and am able to easily share their images with my five grown children (37 > 24 yo)--who have never seen artwork I did "in my prime", before I had to work full-time to raise my family!
Thank you for watching and for the kind words! I am very happy this helped you scan you photos.
I'm about to become a legend in my family! Thanks for the knowledge Jeffery
I just saw this video and thought it was great, i have a ton of negatives to scan from relatives that have passed and I will use this process to see how it works. Thank you for the video.
Glad it was helpful!
I used a Samsung Galaxy S21 phone with my MacBook Pro and Photoshop with awesome results. Easy and fast! Had to improvise on the props for height and plane but the focus was right on! High enough resolution for the purpose (PowerPoint presentation through a projector). So Genius! Thank you, Mr. Howard!
This method works amazing. I was trying other methods and pictures were dark or blurry. I followed this setup and the results are clear, proper colors, and bright. I found a "white background display" online to use on my tablet. Thank you for the video, fantastic!!
Thank you.
This was the exact problem I was having. Thank you very much for this video!
Pure genius. Thank you Jeffery!
Just saw this video. wonderful innovation. Can't wait to try this. Got 35 years of negatives. Will get back after I have tried scanning some negatives. Bangalore, INDIA
Thanks for the additional and very helpful info Jeffery on the slide process, it's definitely a method I'll try via iPhoneI
I've always wanted a film camera but scared of the cost of scanning film to digital. You're amaaaaazing!
Thank you so much for watching, and for the nice comment. I hope this helps you to enjoy shooting more film.
I am SOOO happy right now. I have boxes of 120 format slides - which are 2.75" x 2.75". NONE of the scanners support this slide size. There's a service online that will do it for $2 per slide!!! This just saved me so much money!
I am very happy this video helped you scan your film. Thank you for commenting and thank you for the kind words.
Good old American ingenuity! Love this! Excellent tutorial.
Thank you for commenting and thank you for the kind words!
I have an old old scanner that does the film but I just happened upon this video and loved it. Thanks for posting
Love, Love this video! I was recently given some old family negatives...and this is absolutely a great idea. Thank you so much.
Loved this video ... very down to earth explanation . Well Done!
great video about scanning!
always nice to see how others do it.
love to find other film photographers on here!
What a simple and creative home-hold solution to scanning old negatives. Its make shift but totally awesome, and it works. Thank you for this video. Great job!
Lalo Amigo, Thank you so much for watching and I also thank you for the kind comment.
So $2 for picture frames and maybe $7 for a few cans of tuna and I’ve saved $150?! Count me in! This is brilliant. Thank you. 🙂
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Someone give this guy a medal! what a Legend!
Great tutorial, gave it a go the other day ,just hand held for a one off frame , quite impressed with the result .
Glad it helped
Grassroots approach, well done sir.
Sensible, to the point, informative. Damn near perfect video!
I have hundreds of negative from generations of my family I was given from from my grandma.i can't wait to try this.
💝💝 old family pictures!
You are really amazing, I was wondering here and there for hours to do this. You are terrific
Thank you for watching. I really appreciate the kind words.
Simple, inexpensive, and it works. What more can I say? Thanks, guy!
Oh what a brilliant idea! Thanks for sharing.
K.I.S.S. Keep it Simple Stupid. It was what I taught my Photography students for forty years. Jeffery Howard does just that on this simple but effective way of scanning images. No fancy or expensive boxes or electronic device. It's just simple . Ask yourself.. What are your objectives? Just pulling the camera away from the light table to eliminate the pixels is once again. Simple. Great video and good job.
I just got a nice nice slide scanner. I'm glad I waited until I could afford one because now I have all these slides and I'm finally going to do this the right way so I don't have to do it again. At my age that is priceless.
You are welcome!
This is great and informative. Thanks for the tutorial!
Jeffery or should I call Yankee Ingenuity, this is one of the best easy to understand and easy to Do It Your Self videos available recycled box and tuna cans, plus picture glass from the 99 Cents Store or Dollar Tree, it is truly Yankee Ingenuity.
Thank you for watching and commenting.
Reading through the comments smiling the entire time, I decided to see if there was anything negative...and apparently there are 157 people who suffer from dyslexia and mistakingly pushed the thumbs down button. So congratulation's on 100 % likes. I look forward to trying this out. Thank You and God Bless you for taking the time to share your knowledge
Thank you for watching and thank you so much for the kind words.
Thank you for a real cool easy to make DIY scanner fol films to digital.
Thank you Jeffrey.
I like clever and simple, but that's genius!
You are very welcome.Thank you for watching.
damn dude, you're the man!
Thank you so much for the kind comment. I hope this helped you scan your negatives.
This was so helpful. Thank you so much for this video!
OMG, you're like the Macgyver of photo restoration. Thank you!
Thank you for watching and commenting! I really appreciate you taking time to watch my video!
Sound!! I look forward to giving this a try!
That was fun... got some ideas for my slides scanning. Thanks a lot!
Great video; thanks for doing all the work figuring out how to do this!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for commenting.
I'm definitely trying this! thank you!
Amazing video, love this DIY way of doing it!
Very creative use of common parts.
Very Clever. Thank you. I'm going to try this.
Great video. Short and sweet. Thanks for the idea.
Glad you liked it!
This is such an awesome idea!!! thanks so much for this.
So great! Thank you for this awesome tutorial!
Oooooooooooo wooooow itst the best tutorial for scanning film,ay home, greetings from Argentina!!!!!
A very practical tutorial! Thank you sir!!
Not sure you will see this comment since your video is two years old. I found an old projector of my parents with slides at least 75 years old. The projector no longer worked. I tried your little contraption and could not believe how easy it was to work and how well the pictures turned out. Thank you
You are very welcome, and thank you for commenting.
Very ingenious. Thanks, I will give this a try
Love this - Thanks Jeffery - saved a world crisis in our home :)
this is amazing!! thank you Jeffery
Thanks for watching and commenting.
I love it and the simplicity of it... thanks
This is the best DIY video. THANK YOU! I've even shared this with my Facebook friends and they can't wait to get going on their old negatives. The B&W ones turn out pretty decent; the colored ones, however, need to be tweaked and I don't have the patience for that so I turn them into B&W. If you have an easy way to get the color looking decent, please share! I have found, too, I have to finagle a bit to reduce glare and the bathroom works pretty good for that. So thankful I don't have to hunt down a place to do this for me and then risk damage to the negatives or having them lost/not returned.
Thank you for watching and commenting. I am happy this helped you scan your negatives.
Thanks for the helpful video, you are like the Bob Ross of photography!