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llamekuf | 10:05 Sat 23rd May 2020 | Technology
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Anyone know if there is software that can be loaded onto an Android phone or tablet so that photograph negatives can be scanned ?
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There are a few apps which will do this via the phone’s camera so not quite as a scanner. Android or iOS?
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Android.
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Sorry, it can't be done.

The camera in a phone uses reflected light to produce an image, whereas scanning negatives requires transmitted light (passed through[i a negative, rather than bounced off its surface) in order to achieve the desired result.

The only way you might manage to scan a negative with [i]any] camera (whether inside a mobile phone or not) is to lay the negative on a lightbox (or light pad), then photograph it and use image-processing software to reverse the image. It's unlikely that you'd get a worthwhile result.
It an be ‘pseudo’ done. With a steady hand, a good ‘macro’ setting on the phone’s camera and, as you say, a light box (or sellotaping them to a window).
Scan the negatives. Use a graphics app to make the positive.
(Remember minus a minus is a plus.)
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Thank you all for your information.

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