35mm Negatives

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Having a little sort out and I have quite a few 35mm negative that I'd like save and get digitised before they get to old to do anything with. What would be the easiest/cheapest way to get them converted to digital images?

I've seen various "scanners" for slides/negatives ranging from £30 to several hundred. Do they scan them as a negative or convert them to a viewable image. Jessops has now disappeared from the high street and I'm not clued up enough to know of anyone else who may scan negatives or what sort of cost might be involved.
 
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Thank you, don't know what I'll do next. But at least I know more than I did this morning.:)

I've not finished sorting what I've got yet. I don't think it's going to be an enormous amount so I may try Boots first just to see what cost may be involved and what quality I can expect.
 
A friend mention he thought ASDA did it last night. If it's cheap enough I'll try a few films and see what the quality is like. In truth they're not that important but I would like to save them before they get lost again.
 
I actually popped into ASDA this morning and enquired. They will scan negatives for 30p odd each and stick them on a CD/DVD for £1 (I think the 30p is per strip as opposed to per negative.) At that money I will give them a try. Some of the old photos I have are not that good a quality anyway, so it just a matter of preserving them so they don't get lost or forgotten about.
 
Well I popped into my local Boots and made some enquires and getting negatives scanned is much cheaper than I expected. It's around £2 to have set of negatives scanned (up to 28 images) and £2 to have them stuck on a CD. Once you have the images, their normal rates for enlargements/prints apply. I will give them a go at the weekend. If the negatives have been cut into singles it's 30 odd pence each.
 
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