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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 633880, member: 56"]You can buy non-reflective glass. A piece of that might help keep the negatives flat. I would guess that keeping the camera centered and straight is a problem.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some scanners are multi-purpose and have the capacity to process negatives. They come with templates that hold a variety of formats. </p><p><br /></p><p>I was looking through a box of negatives that I have and found, on a just quick peek, 5 different negative formats - from 2 1/4" (the old Kodak Brownie format) to more recent 35mm.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have taken negatives to the library to scan, as they have the equipment. I've also considered purchasing such a scanner, but find it difficult to justify the expense. Even though I have hundreds upon hundreds of negatives, the work involved would be hugely time consuming, few of the images have any aesthetic value, and most of the people are unknown to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is from a photo about the size of a 35mm neg, originally scanned at 2400 dpi. The scan took about 3 minutes. Before resizing it to post here, the file was 3.9mb.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]182593[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>You'll get similar results from negatives, and scanning densities are available to rival the grain density in the original film (if you want to take the time).</p><p><br /></p><p>You can get good results with high-density scans, but they do take time and there's always a lot of post-scan editing[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 633880, member: 56"]You can buy non-reflective glass. A piece of that might help keep the negatives flat. I would guess that keeping the camera centered and straight is a problem. Some scanners are multi-purpose and have the capacity to process negatives. They come with templates that hold a variety of formats. I was looking through a box of negatives that I have and found, on a just quick peek, 5 different negative formats - from 2 1/4" (the old Kodak Brownie format) to more recent 35mm. I have taken negatives to the library to scan, as they have the equipment. I've also considered purchasing such a scanner, but find it difficult to justify the expense. Even though I have hundreds upon hundreds of negatives, the work involved would be hugely time consuming, few of the images have any aesthetic value, and most of the people are unknown to me. This is from a photo about the size of a 35mm neg, originally scanned at 2400 dpi. The scan took about 3 minutes. Before resizing it to post here, the file was 3.9mb. [ATTACH=full]182593[/ATTACH] You'll get similar results from negatives, and scanning densities are available to rival the grain density in the original film (if you want to take the time). You can get good results with high-density scans, but they do take time and there's always a lot of post-scan editing[/QUOTE]
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