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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Depends on the lens, film and how good your technique was. 4K is only 8MP and will provide enough information for an approximately 8×10/8×12 print without resizing. 35mm film certainly has enough information in it for that.

I was scanning 35mm film at 24MP in 2002. I never saw any benefit from anything higher than that, but I was shooting high ISO negative films with lots of large grain.

A low ISO film well handled has more than enough data to make >24MP worth it.

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