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?

Question

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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Answer 1

Well film is usually high quality scanned at up 3048 DPI, or 12.4 megapixels. 5k resolution is around 14 megapixels. So YES most film can be scanned at 4k.

It does depend however on the film stock and lens. Some stocks have lower resolution, some have higher grain, and some lenses are very bad and can’t hold up to higher resolution.