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Archiving and Scanning Digitisation at Oxford Duplication Centre
Digitisation of 35mm Negatives - Converting your Archives
In photography, a negative is an image, usually on a strip or sheet of transparent plastic film, in which the lightest areas of the photographed subject appear darkest and the darkest areas appear lightest.
This reversed order occurs because the extremely light-sensitive chemicals a camera film must use to capture an image quickly enough for ordinary picture-taking are darkened, rather than bleached, by exposure to light and subsequent photographic processing.
In the case of color negatives, the colors are also reversed into their respective complementary colors. Typical color negatives have an overall dull orange tint due to an automatic color-masking feature that ultimately results in improved color reproduction. Negatives were once commonly made on a thin sheet of glass rather than a plastic film, and some of the earliest negatives were made on paper.
Photographic negatives include 35mm, 35mm half frame, 110 mounts, 126 film mounts, 35mm negative strips and 35mm half frame negative strips.
STANDARD FORMAT FILM TYPES: 35mm Slides, 35mm Half Frame, 35mm Negative Strips, 35mm Half Frame Negative Strips,
3D Stereo Slides, 126 film mounts, 127 Superslides, 126 Negative Strips. Please note: 110mm Slides and Negatives, due to very low grain must be digitised to Publication TIFF, before converting to JPEG. |
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| Digitising Price Per Unit | Output Format | 1+ | 10+ | 50+ | 100+ | 500+ | 1000+ | 5000+ |
| Standard Scanning | JPEG 4800dpi | 2.00 | 1.00 | 0.50 | 0.45 | 0.40 | 0.35 | 0.30 |
| Publication Scanning | TIFF/RAW 3200dpi | 4.00 | 2.00 | 1.00 | 0.75 | 0.65 | 0.55 | 0.50 |
| Archival Scanning | TIFF/RAW 4800dpi | 6.00 | 3.00 | 1.50 | 1.25 | 1.00 | 0.75 | 0.75 |
126 Negative Strips