Remember Film?

Color negative and scanned version in Lightroom

Now that we’re only a year away from being empty nesters we’re thinking about bringing all our old photos into the digital age. The kid in this shot is now 17.

I’m testing out scanning negatives on the Nikon Coolscan V ED that I have been using for scanning slides. The image quality is coming out beautiful, but it’s taking way too long (over 3 minutes per negative after it’s done all its processing).

Next two options: shooting with my camera on a backlit macro set up and processing in Photoshop, or just paying a service to do it all for us.