will image converter scan old black and white negatives?
1116953
I have not done it yet, but the specification say that it will, and that's one of the reasons I bought it. It has settings for positives or negatives, and for color or black and white (and many other settings). So far I have scanned over 1500 color slides and I am amazed at the quality for this price. It comes with a slide holder and a negative holder.
944606
Yes, it will. I have scanned many 35mm color and B&W; negatives. The negative strip fits perfectly into the holder. Be sure to handle the negatives correctly and perhaps even wipe them gently with a lens cloth to remove dust. Even better, buy a can of compressed-gas. Scan them at very high resolution and you'll be amazed at the clarity.
1720146
My experience with the Pandigital for color and black and white photographs is absolutely wonderful. I love this machine. For negatives I am using another machine a negative converter to digital. You can find them everywhere, in Bestu Buy, Amazon.com and inclusive in Walmart. They are very inexpensive and work wonders on negatives. Again, I love my Pandigital but I use it only for photographs. I hope I was able to help.excelent
2120759
If your negative is color the scan will be in color. I believe you have the option to change it to greyscale or black and white but I have never used that option.
1875452
This scanner will scan a color or black and white negative, and make you a digital .JPG (picture). You can then do whatever you want to with it. I have scanned negatives that I still have prints from, from the 1980's, and my prints from these scans are better than the originals from the 1980's. So yes it will scan them very well.
2137043
Not sure what you mean by 'positive' but if you scan a black and white negative it will create a black and white image of what was on the negative that you can transfer to your computer and print like you would any other photo. Hope that helps!
1222749
I have some black and white 35mm negatives from 40 years ago. The result I got was more than I expected and was as good as I can ever get. Considering what options I have, or you have to digitized the B & W negatives inexpensively, there is no better option. I had a darkroom, enlarger, wet trays...and take hours to get to the print 40 years ago. I can now digitize the B & W negatives and go to Photoshop and do burn and dodge on the computer screen. Well, the younger photographer never knew that "burn and dodge" as from the photo enlarger era.
969321
No, most negatives are in a five or six shot strip which won't fit down inside the viewer slot (unless you shove only one end of the strip in) and then they'd be inverse to view anyway. Slides or transparencies only I'm afraid. For negatives, try a light table or tray to sort and view or a scanner with negative capability.
1785496
The actual scanning takes about 2 seconds. Where the time is involved is in the loading and unloading of the frame that holds the negatives. Figure about 1-2 minutes per frame loading and unloading. It's still worth the doing in order to save those old pictures.
291081
You may have to buy or build an adapter but it can scan negatives. When you preview the scan, make sure the "thumbnail" box is not checked. This will scan the entire negative area and you can select the area to scan manually.
295006
Yes, "guruofvinyl" is correct. There is a setting in the software to scan negatives. It's quite effective.
2217075
Pretty sure that option is NOT available. As others have mentioned, scan the photo, and import it into a 3rd party software program, and then convert it to Black and White. There are several free programs that will do this. GIMP can do it, and is very popular. But there are other good ones too.
1315727
I've scanned 35mm slides and negatives that were more than 30 years old with out any problems. much better than scanning a old photo.
1348004
Saves in JPG. You would need a software program like Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to convert to other formats. Scanner works very well and I convert to TIFF so that I can make changes later without losing quality. I have been very happy with this scanner.
2892
Yes it can. You have to select type of scan, e.g., tiff or JPEG. You'll probably want JPEG. You should set the resolution, which depends upon what you want to do with the scanned image. Low resolution is OK if you are going to distribute the scanned pictures in emails, but if you want to make prints ultimately, save at at least 300 dpi. You should tell the scanner where on your computer you want to save the files. I use "My Pictures," but the default, whatever it is, is OK, as long as you make a note of it, so that you can find the pictures after scanning them. You'll be asked about color settings or black and white. Choose the default settings for either, since things can become quite complex if you decide to tweak the settings. This is an excellent scanner, and it can do anything you ssk of it, including restoring damaged pictures, but that's for more advanced users.
291556
I have this scanner and it will only do 35mm negatives. It does a pretty good job considering that this scanner is pretty cheap.
1110169
I used it for many 35mm color slides and negatives, and got OK results. If you have a Windows machine you can use the software that accompanies the scanner to get better results. I chose this one because it is also a good flatbed scanner.