It’s a film scanner in a box and is great way of turning old films into a digital image using a … [+]
PictoScanner
In many countries, the Easter school holidays will soon be here. How are we going to keep the kids occupied and engaged? This ingenious little film scanner could be a possible answer, especially if the kids are spending time with grandparents or older relatives who may have a collection of old family photos on negatives or slides?
There’s something wonderfully mysterious about turning a color negative or a strip of old black-and-white film into images. When I was younger, I used to print my own photos in a darkroom. I’ll never forget the thrill of seeing a positive image slowly emerge in the developer tray. I doubt many people do photo processing these days or even use old-school film.
The modern equivalent of photo processing is manipulating digital images on software like Adobe Photoshop. To do this with…
