[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 ...

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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The folks over at Make have a nice pattern you can print out on reasonably thick silver card stock and fold it into a slide and negative scanner. You just cut it out, fold it into the shape pictured ...

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 ...

Shooting a roll of analog film and developing negatives can be an enjoyable experience. However, scanning those negatives to create digital files is often slow, cumbersome, and requires heavy ...

If you're using a Hewlett-Packard Scanjet flatbed scanner with a Transparent Materials Adapter, you can scan 35mm slides and negatives using the TMA attachment. Because light travels through slides ...