Negative Scanning

[llamekuf]

Anyone know if there is software that can be loaded onto an Android phone or tablet so that photograph negatives can be scanned ?

[Zacs-Master]

There are a few apps which will do this via the phone’s camera so not quite as a scanner. Android or iOS?

[llamekuf]

Android.

[Zacs-Master]

PhotoScan

[Buenchico]

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.

[Zacs-Master]

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).

[Old_Geezer]

Scan the negatives. Use a graphics app to make the positive.
(Remember minus a minus is a plus.)

[llamekuf]

Thank you all for your information.