Have you ever wanted to turn your old negatives into a digital format? It has crossed my mind a few times. More for backup purposes, but it would also be really convenient.

Why Would I Want To Convert Negatives?

There are a number of reasons:

1. Backup - You now have a digital representation of the photo. You can burn it onto a CD or an external hard drive.
2. Portability - Now you can share it easily with everyone, put it on your website, and more.
3. Cheap reprints - If you want to print it off you can just send it via the to Walmart or anything other discount developer for as low as 15 cents.
4. Photo editing - You can play with the photo now. Touch it up, restore colour, crop it, and the list goes on.

Where To Do It

Any photo finishing place should be able to do it. The thing I found is that the cost really, really varied (and I mean REALLY). I found Black's Photography in Calgary and they were charging $1.95 per picture. This is ridiculous and they sounded annoyed with me on the phone for not doing it at the time I developed my photos (it was only around $5/roll). The thing is, my negatives are older than that.

Where is the cheapest? So far, it is Walmart. Good old discount photo finisher comes through for me. They charge $9.97 flat rate for the first 40 and then an addition $0.97 for every 10 negatives after that. For 240 pictures that comes out to around $30. Now that is a reasonable price to backup photos for. At Black's that would have been $480.

I have recently took in a few hundred 35mm film negatives from my wedding and had them done. They said it will take a day. I will follow up with the results after that.

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