On 01/02/2015 11:24, Steve wrote:

Thanks. I looked into this a while back and was told that a scanner
couldn't make them positives; I'd need to have them developed first.
Has the technology advanced, or did I misunderstand?


Scanners will work with any developed film, positive or negative..

however slide film (positive) has a colourless backing so it shows the
correct colours when viewed in normal light.

Negative film still has the colour filter layers in place (they are
bleached out in slide film) which gives a strong orangeish look to the
negatives. You can correct for this in software but you need a scanner
with enough colour depth to allow full correction, one that only does
(about) 8 bit colour depth will struggle as will making jpegs and then
correcting them, some subjects will look ok some wont.