This may seem like a rather silly question, but I have not been able to find an answer anywhere. Here goes:

I am interested in the idea of being able to digitally scan my photographs that I take with my existing camera equipment. Using a film scanner like the Olympus ES10 camera do I still have to take the roll of film into my local photo shop for developing or do I scan the pictures from the film without having to have the roll processed first?

My suspicion is that the film must be developed first, but I was just curious what the exact process was to get a roll of film scanned on to my computer.

Thanks in advance,

Chris Barton cbarton@attcanada.ca

-- Chris Barton (chrisb@attcanada.ca), July 23, 2000

Answers

The film must be developed first. Film scanners can scan slides or negatives. Slides are usually mounted and negatives in strips of 5 or 6 pictures.

Hope this helps.

-- Bong Uichanco (uichanco@email.com), July 24, 2000.