If you know of anyone with a stash of old negatives (which are sometimes color "positives" as above), hopefully you will share this blog post with them. It's often tempting to toss what could be perceived as "useless" negatives, especially these days when it's become so difficult to find a place to "develop" prints from anything other than 35mm. An on-line search yields many places offering to handle such priceless items. However, most people are reluctant, to say the least, to let such pieces leave their hands and risk getting "lost in the mail." These days a relatively simple piece of equipment, a "film scanner," can take the above image and automatically turn it into the image below in one step. Obviously there is a bit of color damage and correction to be made to this photo using a computer and image editing software, but this example demonstrates the possibility of reaping family photos held in these old negatives.
