Question for Photography OPPOs

"touring the brook - now with ZHP!" (touringthebrook) 02/19/2017 at 21:54 • Filed to: None

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While searching for an old VHS tape in a box in my basement, I came across an old Canon SLR in excellent condition that my parents bought back in the 90's. I’m interested in taking some photos on it, but I would prefer to have the photos on my computer or phone. Basically my question is: how do I get my film photos onto a computer? The camera in question is a Canon EOS A2E.

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pjhusa > touring the brook - now with ZHP! 02/19/2017 at 21:57

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Film scanner.

Honeybunchesofgoats > touring the brook - now with ZHP! 02/19/2017 at 21:58

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Proper way would be with a film scanner:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/photography/buying-guide/film-scanners

Otherwise, you could just get them developed and scan the photos.

ETA: my old office had this, and it’s great, but expensive: https://www.amazon.com/Epson-Perfection-V800-Photo-scanner/dp/B00OCEJM9K/

touring the brook - now with ZHP! > Honeybunchesofgoats 02/19/2017 at 22:07

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What do you mean by get them developed then scan the photos?

Aremmes > touring the brook - now with ZHP! 02/19/2017 at 22:08

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Definitely film scanner. Either one of those little slide scanners like a Pacific Image or Plustek, or a flatbed scanner with transparency lid and film carrier like an Epson V550. They all can scan both color reversal (slide) and negative film. If you’re in a pinch money-wise, get one of those film scanners that use a smartphone, but you’ll get what you pay for.

Xyl0c41n3 > touring the brook - now with ZHP! 02/19/2017 at 22:08

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Any photo lab place — Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, etc. — will give you a CD of your prints along with the photos themselves. If you want more quality stuff than that, look for a place that only does photos to do high-res film scanning for you.

Honeybunchesofgoats > touring the brook - now with ZHP! 02/19/2017 at 22:11

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Could could just send the film to get developed and then scan the returned prints on a normal flatbed, but the quality wouldn’t really be that great.

The nice thing about scanning directly from negatives or 35mm slides is that you can make really high resolution scans.

Agrajag > touring the brook - now with ZHP! 02/19/2017 at 22:19

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When you get the film developed you are usually given 3 options. Develop only,prints, or scans. You can choose to do one or all 3 of these. Cheapest option long term would be to only get the film developed and then scan the negatives yourself.

Textured Soy Protein > touring the brook - now with ZHP! 02/19/2017 at 22:26

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If you want the best results, shoot slide film and have it scanned, it’s a better starting point for scanning. I held on to my film well into the early 2000s because there was a camera store near me that developed slide film for cheap and I used the film scanner at my college’s library. But now it’s like $10+ to develop a roll of 24 slides, and I’m no longer a college kid, so doing any significant quantity of film as a bit of a lark quickly adds up.

I had an EOS A2, same as your camera but without the eye controlled AF point selection. It was a great camera.

touring the brook - now with ZHP! > Textured Soy Protein 02/19/2017 at 22:50

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I just want to experiment with the film because I think it’s neat and I haven’t used film in about 10 years. Sadly the final camera store that scanned high-quality film for digitizing on the cheap closed down late last year (for a reason, the customer service was absolute garbage), so I’m stuck with either CVS photo or seeing if the photo department at my school has a scanner.