120 and 220 Film

The last two days I have been scanning in old negatives in sizes 120, and as I discovered 220 film format. That was a job in itself. Luckily I do have a small scanner, Epson 4490 Photo Scanner, which does the trick. I mainly bought it for 35 mm film negatives. Who knew I would one day use it for anything more?

The 120 equates to 2 1/4" x 2 1/4", or 6x6 cm. I learned that the larger frames, same width, was still medium format, but at 2 1/4" x 3 1/2" or 6x9 cm. That right there was a lesson in itself for me.

After I scanned in all four sets of negatives, I worked with them in Microsoft Image Editor, and from there, went into Photoshop Elements. I tried removing some of the dust particles, did some hand painting, and fixed some of the brightness, contrast, and/or exposure. Like I said these were pretty old and not in the best condition, but I think even for viewing family history it works. I did print some of the photographic images to see how they would come out - and the better ones look pretty good I must say. A lot of them, my husband hadn't seen before. Especially the ones of his parents probably when they were first married without any children!

Now that I have that project complete, I need to sit down and make out new title cards for the High Hand Gallery, as we have a new signage requirement.