What is the best way to read your own microfilm or have it converted (inexpensively) to a more accessible digital format? [more inside]
posted by maud on Dec 18, 2009 - 6 answers

I have about 200 rolls of microfilm to be tossed out. There is no charity that would want them, guaranteed. Can anyone think of anything interesting I could do with them?
posted by 5ean on Oct 5, 2009 - 22 answers

How can I avoid motion sickness while reading microfilm, or, failing that, clear my head quickly? [more inside]
posted by Countess Elena on Jan 30, 2008 - 9 answers

How do I improve the legibility of the horrible old Cyrillic newspaper microfilm negatives I am scanning? The main problem is that the background is often faded and hard to distinguish from the text. Is there some clever software trickery that will solve it?
posted by thirteenkiller on May 13, 2007 - 15 answers

Is it possible to use a 35mm film scanner -- such as a Minolta DiMAGE or Nikon Coolscan -- to digitize 35mm microfilm? Film scanners like these are much cheaper than microfilm scanners and take up much less space. Has anyone tried this and been successful?
posted by cog_nate on Feb 6, 2007 - 8 answers

Multi-page tiffs: I'm currently working on a project which involves scanning letters from microfilm onto a laptop. We save letters with more than one page as multi-page tiffs for logistics reasons. What I'm wondering is if there is a way to edit the individual pages after the fact (cropping, brightness, contrast etc. basic stuff)? Preferably free/inexpensive software.
posted by normal_molly on Aug 13, 2004 - 2 answers