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Total newbie here to the Forum. I wonder if I could ask for some advice please ? I wish to digitise some old negatives (some are 90-100 years old) plus some slides. I am reasonably proficient with PSE but only as far as things like cloning, cropping, photomerging, etc. etc. But I am struggling with the more difficult procedures. i.e. levels, gradient maps, etc. I have actually scanned a B&W negative on my Epson XP 900 printer/scanner and used PSE to invert it and got a quite decent photo after playing around with it and then printing it on my Epson. But it's a bit of a fiddle.
I realise that to more easily accomplish what I want to do I need a decent purpose-built negative/slide scanner that does have back lighting. And my reason for joining this Forum and asking the question is to gain the opinion of others about what I should be looking for. This whole exercise is just to digitise loads of family images so that, amongst other things, they can be backed up. I don't want to spend a fortune because, as I'm sure you all know, the quality of the negatives from that long ago aren't that good anyway.
Thanks to anyone who can just give me a few pointers, advice, or comments.
I realise that to more easily accomplish what I want to do I need a decent purpose-built negative/slide scanner that does have back lighting. And my reason for joining this Forum and asking the question is to gain the opinion of others about what I should be looking for. This whole exercise is just to digitise loads of family images so that, amongst other things, they can be backed up. I don't want to spend a fortune because, as I'm sure you all know, the quality of the negatives from that long ago aren't that good anyway.
Thanks to anyone who can just give me a few pointers, advice, or comments.