I have been rescanning some of my father’s negatives from the 1930’s and 1940’s. When I first got the negatives I scanned them all with a Canoscan 9000f. The scans were sharp enough for small prints but because I was only making JPG files I was not able to keep the scanner from clipping the highlights. I am now scanning with a 24MP digital camera and generating RAW files giving me much sharper scans and much more control in post processing.
The photo above was taken by my father in Chicago Illinois in about 1940. There are no frame numbers or other markings on the edges of the negatives so they were probably bulk loaded from some unknown film.
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