If 35mm film can be scanned up to 4K, does that mean I could have old film rolls from my cheap 1990s photo camera scanned to 4K?

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I’m pretty sure the camera used 35mm film, and after I got film rolls developed they were returned to me. I’d just have to find them… And then I assume I could pay for them to be scanned?

The camera was really cheap, just one of those all-plastic with a small lens, not protruding from the body of the camera, basically disposable camera-grade except your could reload film. But since it used film, the film was the “sensor” of the camera so to speak, so the quality should still be good, right?

Is this at all possible?

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I mean, you could scan them into 4k resolution; but the image you get will be limited by the way it was captured.

If it as a low quality camera, chances are it didn’t capture a high quality image. Plus if you haven’t stored it well since the 90s, there is a very good chance the original film will have degraded.

So it’s very much a case of you only get out what you put in. If the original image on the film wasn’t great, all you’ll get is an upscale 4k resolution image of something that wasn’t great to begin with.

There is a reason the saying is “you can’t polish a turd”. If you start with garbage, no matter how you work it you’ll end up with garbage

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