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Originally Posted by Pyrrho
After due consideration of time, effort, relative costs of darkroom chemicals and paper and trays, the alternative of a membership in a local photo org that lets members use the darkroom (bring your own paper), upper back pain from leaning over while trying to "smartphone scan", I've opted to buy a flatbed scanner that can scan film of this size. It was on sale at Amazon. Arrives Wednesday, so we will see how it goes. I have a box full of old photos that I can scan with it. I'll post that photo afterwards for comparison.
Darkroom equipment would have cost me half the price of the scanner. Yes, I am taking the easy way out.
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If it's a halfway decent scanner, you should get good to acceptable results from it. I did some scanning of slides and negatives a few years back and was mostly pleased.