Photographer Claus Thiim has come up with a virtually free way to scan hundreds of old negatives and slides. Best of all, it is easy and fast to make and use. Even if you never touched a film camera, ...

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We've discussed digitizing your old photo negatives before, but dedicated negative scanners can be expensive. Photographer Claus Thiim, however, built his own using just a few toilet paper rolls and ...

Until now, if you wanted to step up from desktop scanners to professional film negative scanning, you needed to be willing to drop a pretty penny. That’s why these hackers bolted together their own ...

[James] didn’t like losing detail when scanning in photographic negatives, so he repurposed an old scanner and turned it into a lightbox. The Flickr set of the build shows [James] installing a compact ...

Big brother to the Kodak P460 Personal Photo Scanner ($109.99 direct, 3.5 stars) and Kodak P461 Personal Photo Scanner ($139.99 direct, 3.5 stars), the Kodak P811BK Personal Photo & Negative Scanner ...