I was clearing out all my photo stuff the other day (and, incidentally I still seem to have every camera I'm bought since 1979. Not sure why). And I've got quite a few films from my APS photo days (I loved my Canon Ixus, which I've obviously still got), so I'm wondering about the best way to get those negatives scanned.

APS always comes back from processing with the film safely wound back into the cartridge, so the negatives should be in excellent condition.

Has anyone here ever used one of the commercial scanning firms? Any recommendations? I can find some details of USB film scanners on the web, but APS devices seem quite rare now, so has anyone got any suggestions?

Cheers, Phil

I get mine scanned at Snappy Snaps (the photo shop chain). They use Noritsu machines which do a very nice job with 5-6 Mb files sizes. Their scans seem to be better than the majority of home machines so the £5 per roll (Watford branch) seems reasonable.

Here is a (downsized) Noritsu scan from APS.

Sky is a bit grainy, is that an artefact of your downscaling or on the original too?

Sky is a bit grainy, is that an artefact of your downscaling or on the original too?

Thats proberbly the resize, although in my experience APS film images tended to be a bit grainy anyway.

Yes - partly the resizing, but grey skies always get a bit grainy on APS - but that happens on 35mm film too. On brighter skies the grain is less noticable.

Going back to the APS pics, I've been surprised how poor the definition and colour saturation is, even on Kodak Gold film.

Looks like I'll be seeing who can do some scanning for me, and at what price! Thanks for your input, folks

Phil

Aps was always grainy.

I have a Konica scanner that does it, but requires a SCSI port to run.