"A well-known problem of almost any Russian family is old photographs and films. How many times, looking at the shelves littered with gradually fading photographs and boxes from under the then most popular Svema-65 film, did you (and I too) take a terrible oath, what if you choose the time, sit down, scan all this wealth, after which you get a normal modern digital collection, which is convenient to watch and sorted into categories literally in a day, and put on the Internet so that other relatives can watch ... In general, such plans are good for everyone, with the exception of one single moment: they are almost never carried out if the collection has accumulated rather big.

Because scanning photos is a tedious, tedious and time-consuming task, and scanning films is easier to hang yourself.

But technology does not stand still, and now, as I found out, there are simple and convenient scanners for both films and photographs, which simplify this whole process so much that I and millions of other users have a chance to digitize their family collection on their own. ." Alex Exler.

The representative office of AVE offers you slide scanners adapted for Russian users. Complete with all scanners is a complete instruction in Russian. All computer software is also in Russian. Considering that many people buy slide scanners as a gift for their parents and people who are not very familiar with a computer, this is important factor. You can be sure that your gift will not cause problems and will be used with gratitude.

Model FS119 connects to a computer and allows you to see the image from the film on the screen and save it to your hard drive.

The rest of the models are stand-alone devices, they do not need a computer to work, you can work with them in any convenient place, and they are also convenient for older people who are not very computer savvy.

Please note that AVE slide scanners are not professional devices and their quality corresponds to the price level. The scanner is selected in the same way as the camera, you do not need to expect quality from a device for 3-5 thousand rubles reflex camera. If you need to see the faces of old friends and upload memorable shots to the Internet, our scanners are a convenient and inexpensive solution. If you are an advanced photographer, you see lens bokeh and detail, then you need a slide scanner that costs an order of magnitude more expensive, just like your camera.

Connects to a computer, all the details of the frame are visible on the big screen and can be quickly adjusted

RUB 4990.00

(not in stock)

New for fall 2019.
The model replaces the popular FS110.
The most user-friendly slide scanner.
Connects to a computer, does not require installation of drivers.
All the details of the frame are visible on the big screen and can be quickly adjusted
Supports film roll feed and single frames.
Film 35mm. Color and black and white. Negatives and positives (slides).

RUB 5490.00

Standalone slide scanner with a resolution of 5 megapixels
For 35mm film, .
Supports film roll feed and single frames.

Displaying the image on TV

RUB 5490.00

Not available

New for 2018. Updated model.
Standalone scanner with a resolution of 14 Megapixels.
For 35mm, 126KPK, 110 film and 8mm film (Super 8).
Supports film roll feed and single frames.
Color and black and white. Negatives and positives (slides).
Save files to SD memory cards.
Displaying the image on TV

Digitization studio "World of Numbers" provides services of professional digitization of photographic films, slides and negatives, photo scanning in Moscow! There are promotions and discounts! Large selection of scanning options: for digitizing films from 1200dpi to 4000dpi, for scanning photographs from 300dpi to 4000dpi. Individual selection is possible.

Benefits of digitization in Mir Tsifry studio

• Technologies for eliminating scratches and dust, electronic retouching;
• Additional processing in Photoshop: color correction, cropping, positioning;
• Range of scanning resolutions from 300dpi to 4000dpi;
• Professional scanners for digitizing films and slides, scanning photos;
• Recording on any medium;
• Quantity discounts: 5-20%.

Digitization of films and slides (negatives, transparencies)

Included in cost:

• Technologies Digital ICE, GEM, ROC - removal of scratches and dust, hardware color correction;
• Post-processing: manual correction, cropping, image rotation to the correct position Promotion! ;

Notes:

• The minimum order for scanning slides and photographic films is 500 rubles;
• Film less than 24 frames, as well as cut film are calculated frame by frame;
• Do not take the slides out of the frame, scanning slides taken out of the frame + 50% to the price list.

An example of digitizing a negative
on the left, enhancement technologies are disabled, on the right, hardware enhancements are applied (relevant for color films)

P.S. Visit our Digitization Gallery to see the work.

P.P.S. Examples of cropping and digitizing slides and negatives.

Photo scanning

Included in cost:

• Elimination of scratches, dust (digital ICE);
• Frame cropping, reversal Promotion! ;
• Automatic color correction, plus manual fine-tuning in Photoshop Action! ;
• Burning to CD/DVD, cloud, customer media.

Discounts for digitizing photos:
200-499 photos	500-999 photos	over 1000 photos

Notes:

• The minimum order for scanning photos is 500 rubles;
• If necessary, remove photos from the album or scan photos without taking out + 30% to the price list.
  

Scanning photographs, digitizing film, slides and negatives are not the only ones. Here you can order text scanning, digitization of books with subsequent recognition and saving in text format. Scanning and processing photos - after digitizing photos, we can retouch the photo, perform restoration, colorize.

Scanning film and negatives

Digitization is carried out on a film scanner, which allows you to scan film at a resolution of 4000 dpi. It is a professional machine for high resolution film digitizing and high performance. An example of scanning a negative without enhancement and with enhancement (removal of scratches and dust, electronic retouching - color restoration, sharpening) you can see a little higher “digitalICE and digitalGEM technologies”. Note that these technologies do not work when digitizing old black-and-white negatives; when scanning film in color, the technologies are relevant. Scanning film - the result exceeds the wildest expectations! Call!

We offer slide digitization and negative film scanning at 1200dpi, 2400dpi and 4000dpi. Example.

Scanning old photos

Additional services after digitization: frame cropping, photo rotation and color correction. When scanning photographic films and digitizing old photographs, a frame is always formed around the digital copy, since the scanned area is always larger than the original image. Also, when scanning, the picture may be upside down. After digitizing photos, color correction is relevant, since the scanning of photos occurs with a slight light - a minus of all flatbed scanners. All these shortcomings can be eliminated! Examples.

Digitizing slides and negatives

You can easily find a studio that will scan photos and digitize film, as well as scan slides. With large volumes of photographic materials in the studio, scanning will be done much faster and better than you can, and for sure you will receive a discount for the volume. What you should pay attention to:

• Prices should be justified, the larger the volume, the cheaper it should be to digitize films and scan photos.

• Deadlines - the studio should keep you informed on the deadlines, it is also possible to take the finished materials in parts.

• Quality - contact a studio with professional equipment, and also pay attention to the list of digitization services, the more there are, the better the studio works.

Digitizing film at home

While a studio can digitize film professionally and save you time, you can try scanning film yourself. Pros of digitizing slides and negatives at home:

• Possibility to choose what frames you need. Digitization of photographic films in the studio involves all the resulting frames.

• Private shots, if you don't want anyone else to see them.

Purchase a scanner to scan slides and film. The more expensive the scanner, the better the digitization of film and slides. You can purchase a flatbed scanner with a slide module, the price varies between 3000-10000 rubles. You can also purchase a professional film scanner with electronic retouching, scratch and dust removal technologies. Such a device will cost 45,000 rubles and more. What you should pay attention to:

• Speed. Some scanners digitize film at breakneck speed. Be prepared that this may affect the quality of film scanning.

• Quality. It is desirable that the scanner supports a resolution of 4000 dots per inch (dpi) for scanning a slide. This setting allows you to digitize the negative in 32x48 quality.

• Compatibility. Professional scanners connect via 1394 protocol, make sure your computer has one.

Flatbed scanner. You can digitize film using a conventional scanner for digitizing text and scanning books. The disadvantages of this method are the small resolution of scanning the slide, the scanner has limitations in brightness, the film is digitized through glass, there are no special "chips" to improve the image. In this way, it is impossible to achieve the same quality of digitizing slides and films as in specialized studios.

Photographing a slide. What you need: a screen, a slide projector and a camera stand. Capture the image on the screen with digital camera, achieve optimum sharpness. The next step is to edit the photo in Photoshop.

Summarize. The cost of digitizing photographic films in the studio and the subsequent processing of photographs is quite adequate today. But the result may pleasantly surprise you! Consider whether it is better for you to trust the professionals of film digitizing and scanning slides or to conduct experiments at home. Pay attention to which studio you are going to entrust digitization. Some companies may lose or damage materials, and the saddest thing is that they are not responsible for this. 93 votes, score: 4,67 out of 5)

All about digital photography

Ordinary scanners are not designed to scan slides and negatives due to insufficient illumination. However, there is a trick that will allow you to do this with a small amount of cardboard. Having built a cunning design, you can redirect the luminous flux and achieve the desired result.

If your archive is full of old negatives that you would like to convert to digital format, you have the opportunity to scan them. But a simple scan will not work for these purposes.

In order for everything to work out, you need a powerful light source, which should be behind the negative or a multi-functional scanner.

Of course, you can buy a special film scanner, but if you already have a regular flatbed scanner, you can get by with it.

You can use a regular cardboard reflector to scan film or slide. It will capture the light emitted by the scanner and reflect it off the back of the slide. Such a reflector will make it possible to scan film and slides as normal documents.

To make a reflector, we need the following materials:

A4 sheet of thick cardboard with a silver side
Pencil
Scissors
Scotch
Ruler

Instruction

Step 1: On the non-silver side of the cardstock, print or draw the following template.

Step 2: Cut out the template and fold it over so that the silver side is facing in.

Step 3: Connect the template into a triangle. It should resemble a wedge. This will leave one side open. The shiny part must be inside.

Let's start using our reflector. Place film or slide on the scanner glass. Place a reflector on top. For best results, align one side of the slide with the center of the reflector. You do not need to close the scanner cover. You can start scanning. If the result is uneven lighting in the picture, you can try to put a thin sheet of tissue paper between the negative and the reflector.

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The paper will scatter the light and prevent the scanner from capturing space behind the film.

Having achieved a satisfactory result, we need to crop the image along the outline of the slide, since the scanner scans the entire glass, and we only need a small frame. Cropping can be done in any graphics editor. To get the clearest image, you need to scan at a high resolution. It is recommended to use 1200 DPI.

After scanning, you will need to carry out small photo manipulations with the image. If you scanned a negative, you will have to invert the colors. This can be done even in Microsoft Paint, so there should be no difficulty. It is also possible to carry out little processing image in any graphic editor. It is recommended to increase the brightness or contrast.

If dust gets on the negative during scanning, it can be removed with a soft lens brush or cosmetic brush. To remove spots or scratches, you can use the healing brush tool.

For this you can use free programs, such as GIMP or Paint.net. They are available for free download and are easy to find on the Internet.

This image shows (from left to right) a direct scan, an inverted scan, and the final image after removing scratches and dust. The whole job took no more than 10 minutes.

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1 step

Scanner with slide module

I’ll make a reservation right away that it’s normal to scan a film only on a scanner with a slide module.

The slide module is a device inside the scanner cover, consisting of a special plate and some other elements. If you just put the film on the scanner glass, the result will be terrible, everything will be blown out and ruined. In addition, the scanner must have a real (not to be confused with interpolated resolution) optical resolution of at least 2400dPi, and preferably 4800dPi.

2 step

You need to prepare the film. Cut it into pieces of 6 frames each. Before this, it is advisable to rinse the film with plain water. Wipe the scanner glass with glass cleaner, otherwise every speck of dust will be visible in the photo. Detach the slide module plate and attach the film to it.

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For a tight hold, use small plates around the edges. Attach the slide module to the scanner cover and lower the cover.

3 step

Soft. As a program for scanning film, you can use the software from the scanner kit. VueScan is also good at this task. You can download it from the resource This utility supports most scanners and has many settings. The scanning process itself is not much different from scanning photos. You need to select the media type Slide\Film, scan resolution, and where to save the file. Choose BMP or TIFF for the generated file format, if you choose JPEG, you will lose the quality of the picture. Batch mode allows you to scan several slides at the same time. It is better to process the resulting image in graphic editors, such as Photoshop. Source akak.ru

• On a weak PC, high-resolution scanning can take quite a long time.
• Do not use multifunction devices (MFPs) to digitize film.
• You can scan both negatives and positives.

Back

How to make a slide module for a scanner

When I wrote about a homemade shoe dryer, I, of course, wanted to post a photo of this miracle. But when I ordered to print "all the resulting" pictures on film, stupid operators did not understand the whole genius of this device and left it unprinted. The second time I did not want to go to them. Then I thought about making a slide module for my Umax Astra 4700 scanner. Well, don't buy it for fifty dollars, really!
The most obvious way: put the film on the glass and shine a lamp on top through white paper for uniformity - did not give anything. Could not find the desired brightness and so on.

Overview of film scanners

Although, theoretically, this is probably possible.
An attempt to force the scanner driver into film scanning mode resulted in it turning off the lamp (this is good) and shouting that it cannot be positioned (this is bad). Probably, there is some kind of calibration scale on the native slide module ... Well, to hell with it.
An Internet search gave a description of the construction of two mirrors. That's what I decided to do. But everything turned out to be somewhat different, as described. In general, for fun, I post how it was.
You will need:
- two mirrors approximately 60 * 60 mm (deviations in any direction are possible, affecting the result);
- a box from a 5-inch CD;
- glue for plastics and glass (preferably cyanoacrylic - second);
- a hacksaw, or a jigsaw, or a knife, in general, something with which you can cut a box from a CD.

Ideally, you will also need a piece of glass, but if the box is not scratched, it will do. Although the quality will certainly be worse.

We take the cover from the CD and cut off two corners from it (right-angled triangles with sides of about 3 cm). This will be a measure of 90 degrees, under which you need to glue the mirrors. We glue mirrors to them with a reflective surface inward to make a house. When it dries, put this house on what is left of the lid (so that the mirrors look down) and glue it by the lower ribs.
You get something like this design. I tried to photograph it with a webcam from different angles, but it still didn’t turn out very well. (click to enlarge)

How to use what you got

The main thing is patience. Wait until the glue dries so as not to crap the scanner glass :)))

Put emulsion film on the scanner. We put the house on top so that the mirrors look down, and the film is shifted to its edge and lies parallel to the junction of the mirrors (see pictures).

And we put the house ALONG the movement of the carriage - this is the main know-how. From above we cover all this with an opaque box - it can increase the contrast of the image. Again, see the picture.

It is useful to paint the inside of the box with black paint - all for contrast.
And ... full speed ahead! Resolution - 1200-2400.

The result will be approximately the same horror as in the picture on the right.

Do not despair - this is what we have achieved. Load it into Microsoft Photo Editor (it's in the MS Office installer, in the Office Tools branch) or something smarter. Make a negative out of this image. I ended up with an average picture in which the colors are already distinguishable, but there is a lot of blue. The Photo Editor has a Balance function that allows you to change the brightness of both the entire picture and each color component individually. With its help, you need to remove the blue, you can add red. And we get what we see in the left picture. And all the scratches on it are from the cover of the CD (use glass, comrades!).
It, of course, is not a fountain, but for some purposes it will fit very well.

Good luck!

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Scanning negatives

Comrades (or whatever is fashionable today), gentlemen of the forum.

I decided to convert the family photo archive into digital format.
There are just too many negatives! Since the 80s of the last century. Taking into account the fact that my father was engaged in photography (true still b-w). I have been photographing and printing photos since I was 6 years old.

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In short, a lot has accumulated.

My old scanner does not support this feature. I took a Mustek scanner - BearPaw 2448TA Plus for testing.
When scanning at a resolution of 1200 dpi, everything is fine, but the speed is not satisfactory, it takes 10 minutes to process 4 negatives, not counting the cropping time. Especially not satisfied with the quality and resolution.
When scanning at high resolution, various quirks appear, either black photos, or white, or one of the RGB components. Moreover, there are no regularities (reboots of programs and drivers, memory occupancy, etc.)!

Maybe someone faced such a problem?

I am ready to buy a new scanner for scanning negatives (only negatives are possible - specialized).
Maybe someone works on this profile in photo labs.

Due to financial situation, please do not offer photo scanners for more than $300.

Ordinary scanners are not designed to scan slides and negatives due to insufficient illumination. However, there is a trick that will allow you to do this with a small amount of cardboard. Having built a cunning design, you can redirect the luminous flux and achieve the desired result.

If your archive is full of old negatives that you would like to convert to digital format, you have the opportunity to scan them. But a simple scan will not work for these purposes. In order for everything to work out, you need a powerful light source, which should be behind the negative or a multi-functional scanner.

Of course, you can buy a special film scanner, but if you already have a regular flatbed scanner, you can get by with it. You can use a regular cardboard reflector to scan film or slide. It will capture the light emitted by the scanner and reflect it off the back of the slide. Such a reflector will make it possible to scan film and slides as normal documents.

To make a reflector, we need the following materials:
A4 sheet of thick cardboard with a silver side
Pencil
Scissors
Scotch
Ruler

Instruction

Having achieved a satisfactory result, we need to crop the image along the outline of the slide, since the scanner scans the entire glass, and we only need a small frame. Cropping can be done in any graphics editor. To get the clearest image, you need to scan at a high resolution. It is recommended to use 1200 DPI.

If dust gets on the negative during scanning, it can be removed with a soft lens brush or cosmetic brush. To remove spots or scratches, you can use the healing brush tool. To do this, you can use free programs such as GIMP or Paint.net. They are available for free download and are easy to find on the Internet.