Amateur Photographer

Best film-copying accessories

Many AP readers will have built up a large archive of film photographs and even if you weren’t shooting film back in the day, the analogue revival shows no sign of petering out (especially amongst younger photographers, which is very gratifying). Many of us want to digitise our negatives and slides, however, either to give the images an extra tweak in editing-software, or just to make them easier to share on social media or websites.

As you’ll see below there are several options. For the quickest high-quality results, you can shoot your film using a DSLR or

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