Can I recover full-size photos from a printed contact sheet if the original film is gone?
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I no longer have the original film rolls. All I have is a printed contact sheet/photocard showing small previews of the developed photos. Is it possible to scan that sheet, for example with an Epson Perfection V600, and get usable individual photos from it?
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Not in any meaningful quality. If what you have is a printed contact sheet with tiny preview images, scanning it can only give you very small, low-resolution copies. You won’t be able to recover the original full-size photos or anything close to the detail that was on the film.
A scanner like the Epson V600 can scan prints, but it cannot recreate image data that isn’t present in those tiny printed thumbnails. At best, you might extract a blurry, very low-quality reference image.
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