Important Information
Creative Mode no longer offers this service.
Alternative Scanning Providers
Negative Scanning Overview
Our Negative Scanning Service can digitise your cherished 35mm negatives and transfer them to CD or DVD. Digital photos from film negatives are ready to print, email and share.
Negative Scanning Requirements
- Colour or black & white
- Negative or positive
- 35mm film strips
- 1 to 6 frames per strip
We cannot digitise roll films.
Negatives may have superficial damage such as dust, scratches, fingerprints etc. but otherwise must be free of major physical damage and mildew.
Negative Scanning Results
A 35mm negative scanned at 4000 ppi produces an image of approximately 5670×3780 pixels. This is equivalent to taking the same picture today with a 21 mega-pixel digital camera and can produce prints up to 18.9 ×12.6 inches (A3) when printed at 300 dpi.
Recommended Scan Options
Manual Cropping
Normally a thin white border will appear on negative scans, this is the surrounding unexposed film. This unsightly border can be removed by cropping. We manually crop each frame to include as much of the original image as possible. Automatic cropping offered by our competitors uses a "one size fits all" approach that can crop important details or leave black borders.
Colour Correction
Even carefully stored negatives are susceptible to discolouration and fading over time which often appears as a blue or purple tint across the entire image. Colour correction is a semi-automatic process that takes place in the scanner hardware to restore faded and shifted colours. We manually process and check each image to ensure the best possible scan results.
Digital Cleaning
Digital Cleaning is the process of removing unsightly dust, scratches, fingerprints and other minor imperfections from scanned images. This process does not affect your original films or prints in any way.
Our Digital Cleaning option now includes:
- Digital ICE automatic dust and scratch removal
- Manual retouching
- Red eye removal
