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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You can scan/digitise your old 35mm film to a higher resolution than you’re likely to need, but if you’ve used a crappy camera (which in this context basically means a camera with a crappy lens) or the original image is crappy for some other reason, what you’ll end up with is a very accurate copy of the crappy image that’s currently on the film.
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