How to scan 35mm or 120 negatives without a scanner.
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- 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 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👍🏼
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
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 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
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!
“Two cans of tuna are enough for your iPhone” it’s something I definitely would love to hear from Tim Cook at an Apple launch event 😂
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!
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.
Jeffery. You are love. You are light. But seriously, thank you for this tutorial!
This is precisely what RUclips was created for, brilliant!
Good ol' Yankee ingenuity is alive and well. I love it. Thanks a million, Jeff.
I'm about to become a legend in my family! Thanks for the knowledge Jeffery
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
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 cant stop laughing on this. I almost bought a scanner for 500€.
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?
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
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.
damn dude, you're the man!
Thank you so much for the kind comment. I hope this helped you scan your negatives.
Hello from Ireland. Thank you Jeffery - great video. Simple engineering - I love it!! Super helpful. I hope you and yours are well. Stay safe.
Your trial and comment is really practical and useful! Thank you!!! Seoul, Korea
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.
the simplest method. Brilliant Big Thank you
When I first saw the description of your video, I thought you were a lunatic. After watching, I'm SURE of it. BUT - IT WORKS! Would be doing it now, if the wife hadn't made those tuna sandwiches.
Great comment! Thank you for watching.
I know I'm late to the party, but I just had to say this great. You've saved me a fortune. Now if I can just stop making a snack out of my "phone stand" I'll be set. 😂
Thank you for commenting. I am glad this video helped you scan your photos.
Modern problems require modern solutions
Thank you Jeffrey.
I like clever and simple, but that's genius!
You are very welcome.Thank you for watching.
2 cans of tuna are great, I am using a Samsung Note 10 phone, and the slide scanning is easy as cake to do now, thanks very much for taking the time. DollarTree locally now has 11x14 frames for even bigger panels of glass that I use 2 of to sandwich negatives with, I'll use the two cans of tuna for that process too.
Thanks for commenting. I am glad this video helped.
Clever!!! Thanks for the idea!!! Now I can digitize those negative I took and developed 50 years ago!!!!!
Excellent!
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!
Great video. Short and sweet. Thanks for the idea.
Glad you liked it!
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.
Great video; thanks for doing all the work figuring out how to do this!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for commenting.
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.
Thanks again to everyone who has watched and commented on this video. I am happy that so many people have found it helpful. I just wanted to clarify a few points about this method based on questions I have received.
While this is a cheap and easy way, I think a good scanner is better than this for a several of reasons.
1. A good film scanner may have higher resolution than your iPhone camera.
2. A good film scanner will save the photos in RAW format allowing more adjustment range in Lightroom or Photoshop.
3. A good film scanner will often have built in software to remove tiny dusk specs.
This method may be better for you than using a film scanner for a couple of small reasons.
1. you don't have to buy a scanner.
2. You don't have to fool with hooking up a scanner to your computer and installing software and drivers.
3. You can scan negatives faster this way, than any flat bed film scanner I have ever used.
Thank you again for watching and if you have any questions, I will try to respond more promptly.
Works great! For 1Phone 14 pro I'm getting best resolution from a single tuna can. The only issue is a bit of reflection of the shiny camera housing area of the phone reflecting on the surface of the slide, only noticeable with a black background. Thanks for the vid!
Or.. just get a piece of opaque 1/4" plastic from the hardware store and place that on top of the iPad. That will diffuse the light and eliminate the pixels from the screen created with the white paper technique you mentioned. You can then rid of q the US mailbox and place the glass on top of that! 👍
Those cans of tunas are legit game changers
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
This is amazing!! I've saved so much than buying a pricey scanner and even developing in stores! Thank you so much!
Loved this video ... very down to earth explanation . Well Done!
Perfect, best discovery of the week 💙 Please, do more stuff and put it here.
I am working on more videos about scanning and plan to have a follow up to this video loaded by August 5th.
For a blank white screen, typing about:blank into a web browser will open a blank white page. There are free apps, such as Negative Image that will invert the negatives.
This is such an awesome idea!!! thanks so much for this.
Well done that man! I have a light box and the tuna can trick is genius!
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.
Who's a clever boy, then ?
Jeffrey is !!!
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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.
ah.... the old can-o-tuna trick! haha great vid!
I thought this was a piss take at first. Its pure class. Some man
This was great . Thank you!
You're so welcome!
0:42 Looks for an "affordable" way to scan a negative... then proceeds to use an iPad for the light source (never mind me, I just found it funny). Anyway, if you intend to use a tablet of some kind to light up the negative, you don't need to raise the glass "holders" above the tablet goto make the tablet's pixels go away. All you need to do is place a piece of wax paper (parchment) on top of it first. The wax/parchment paper helps blur out the pixels enough that they no longer show up in the scanned images. I've been using this method for years with great success.
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.
Wow excellent thing I learn from this video. thanks
really like you voice
You, Sir, are a gentleman.
Any specific brand of tuna cans would work better? Just kidding. Thank you for the tips,they really help.
great stuff Jeffrey
That was fun... got some ideas for my slides scanning. Thanks a lot!
Ron Swanson's relative?
An alternative to the box is to put a layer or two of white plastic (grocery bag) between the ipad and glass.
Thank you Jim Sollows. I never thought of that. I will try that this week and report back on my results. I love film photography and I really enjoy hearing a new idea on how to do things.
When I used shopping bags, sometimes we could wrinkles in the bags through the negative. Then we tried a white plastic garbage bag and it seemed to work very well.
@@JefferyAHoward Don't you get "Thank you" and "Come Again" on your negatives?
This is how everyone should scan film. I have all of this at home how… well not film, I just use my phone for photos but if I did have film. Yeah
Excellent unpretentious brilliant idea!👍👏
Thank you very much!
Thanks for this helpful video! 🥺
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!
Give this man a gold medal !! 🏅
great video about scanning!
always nice to see how others do it.
love to find other film photographers on here!
loving it !!!! Great take on this! Made my day!
(especially the tuna!)
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thankyou Jeffery so much for this video, I made this work you are awesome for posting this
this is amazing!! thank you Jeffery
Thanks for watching and commenting.
Excellent. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching.
This is great and informative. Thanks for the tutorial!
Diy all the way and +1 for the 2 cans of tuna bro!
You Sir, are my hero.
Can one lay a piece of white plastic on the monitor so it blocks the pixels. Great idea.
might sound like a daft question. how do i get a full white screen on a amazon kindle or a pc monitor ?.
I used a picture of a white background. I used google and searched for white background and used that on full screen on my ipad.
@@JefferyAHoward Thanks for reply ..i was scratching my head over how you did it.
One of the Best Practical RUclips 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.
A very practical tutorial! Thank you sir!!
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.
My dad took thousands of 120 slides in the 1960's. Can this method be modified to digitize slides?
It will work with slides. If the glass does not sit level over the slide, try placing a dime between the two pieces of glass at each corner.
I want to try this with slides as well. How did it work out ? Thanks
For home and family use, it sounds fantastic. Your explanation of how color works is great.
If you place a sheet of white paper on the tablet screen it stops the pixels showing through and in some cases you can place the glass neg holder directly on the tablet removing the need for the box 👍
Thank you so much for making this vid. I was frustrated on were could i get the money needed for a scanner. Coz my savings isn't enough and i wanted to learn/start film photography right away.
That box is extremely flat and true on that top edge...lol
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.
was going to buy a 320 usd scanner but no, i bought some tuna.
Great method! I will give it a try.
This is so simple and yet so effective! Thank you. The tuna can part made me laugh, but that's some great improvising!
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!
So glad I stumbled across your video. I noticed you haven't uploaded in a year. I'm subscribing and hoping that you'll start uploading again.
I am producing new videos that will be uploading later this month.
That works !!!!
Man, you are hero 😃😃😁😁😁
Thank You, I was looking for a DIY on how to scan my 35mm negatives, without having to go out and buy something. TY VM.
You are welcome!
Flaked or chunks?
Seriously though, do you have a problem with Newton rings with the neg sandwiched between the glass sheets?
I haven't had a problem with newton rings yet but it might be a problem with higher resolution phones or cameras.
Very ingenious. Thanks, I will give this a try
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!
What? No link to Amazon to purchase the specialty tuna cans? Shocking, but thank you.
AWESOME! Very resourceful. Thanks so much for the info. I subscribed your blog
Awesome, thank you!
OK, your idea is great. However, your samples were only in black and white. What about color?
This works with color.