Re: Scanning film negatives


"Mungo "Two Sheds" Toadfoot" <ufdi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Martin Underwood wrote:

You could probably buy a flat-bed scanner with a transparency adaptor
fairly cheaply these days. You may still spend a fair amount of
money, but at least it will be an investment.

My Epson Perfection 1200 Photo scanner can take four mounted slides
at the same time or a single transparency up to 100x130 mm. I used it
to scan some very old glass negatives dating from around 1900 and,
allowing for the fact that the negs were
underexposed/underdeveloped/faded, the results were surprisingly good.

Thanks Martin, there's a couple on Ebay I'll keep an eye on. Don't suppose
you and your scanner live anywhere near Ramsgate? ;)

Si
I have not been happy with the scanning of negatives, it isn't easy, very
time consuming and the results were poor.
Can it be more economic to print the photo's and then use any bog standard
(i.e. cheap) scanner to get them digitised?

Mark BR


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