If you have a bunch of old negatives that you'd like to get into your iPhoto or Picasa so you can process them and actually look at them once in a while. then you might want to try Andrew Lewis' cheap ...

Scanning your film using a DSLR isn’t exactly a new idea. For a long time, people have been rigging together DIY setups with a diffuse light behind a film, then taking a photo of it with their digital ...

Looking to speed up your Super 8 film scanning but not ready to step up to a pricey, professional rig? Then might want to take after Flickr user Photobsen, who rigged up this system that relies on an ...

We’re going old-school with this week’s Tech 911 column—Lifehacker’s weekly Q&A where we solve your quirky technological issues. While plenty of people now use their smartphones as their default ...

We didn’t always have digital cameras, and those negatives still laying at the bottom of some dusty drawer are proof. Now you can easily and affordably digitize those memories. Heavy duty Nikon ...

We've discussed digitizing your old photo negatives before, but dedicated negative scanners can be expensive. Photographer Claus Thiim, however, built his own using just a few toilet paper rolls and ...