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agianelo

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Does anybody use their flatbed scanner to create a contact page for filmstrips?

If so, could you please give me a recommendation for a scanner, etc. I have 35MM and 120 negs (positive and negative)
 
Film negatives and positives are transparencies, and flat-bed scanners work only with reflective originals.
 
agianelo said:
Does anybody use their flatbed scanner to create a contact page for filmstrips?

If so, could you please give me a recommendation for a scanner, etc. I have 35MM and 120 negs (positive and negative)
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You might want to look into a Microtek i800.
 
If your flatbed scanner has device to scan negatives it might work, but also not over the full size of the scannable surface.

My scanner (Canon CanoScanlide 35) doesn't have things like that.:(
 
I think it won't work anyway.
When single frame is being scanned the right exposure possible only in case the programm scanning frame (that one which is being manually established for the film frame) is staying within the film frame borders.
If you are going to use the whole area the scaner will not be able to read exposure and colors correctly
 
Any scanner that will do 8X10 negs would work. The problem would be designing and making a contact frame.
 
I have an Epson 4990. I can load 24 negatives or unmounted positives in the 35mm film holder. (4 strips of 6 images). I don't see why you can't make a contact sheet from the preview scan. It won't be high quality but it will suffice.

I don't make contact sheets. I just let the scanner automatically scan every frame at the highest resolution. You can the throw away any scans that are terrible. The digital files can then be cross-referenced to a name on the negative file sheet. That way you get high res reference scans for all the negatives. This method doesn't work so well for medium format, since you can't fit very many negatives into the carrier. I can only get about one per mounting slot, and they need to be manually adjusted anyway.

/T
 
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I use an old cheap Epson scanner (1260 I think) and an 8x10 light box for this, It works great!
Just put negs in a clearfile page and lay on scanner bed with the light box on top, scan into photoshop and invert.

hope this helps.

Travis
 

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Travis, yours is the only direct answer to the original question.

Arvay, I have an Epson V100 but its transparency holder takes only one 35 mm strip at a time.
 
I use my Epson 4990 for this purpose. The scanner have special holder, that limits the scanned area in document mode. 4 strips of 6 negs or positives will do it fine

Tuolumne, look for this special holder and you will want to scan contact sheets
 

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payasam said:
Travis, yours is the only direct answer to the original question.

Arvay, I have an Epson V100 but its transparency holder takes only one 35 mm strip at a time.
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I am not familiar with this particular model but I guess you can make a kind of strip contact print. There were no words of how many frames should be on the list.:)

If I have time tonight I will make experiment with my HP G4050 but I am sure the black scanner frames will affect badly on the picture in a whole.

I can suggest to scan in a batch all frames in natural size with modest dpi and then arrange them in PS. I think it will not take much time.
 
agianelo said:
Does anybody use their flatbed scanner to create a contact page for filmstrips?

If so, could you please give me a recommendation for a scanner, etc. I have 35MM and 120 negs (positive and negative)
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Yes, I've been doing it for years. Any scanner with a transparency hood is fine. Initially I used an Agfa Snapscan (the transparency hood cost as much as the scanner); now I use an Epson 1680. Thee's a bit about how I do it on my web-site:

http://www.rogerandfrances.com/photoschool/mt print file.html

Cheers,

Roger
 
Thank You Travis and Roger! Just the ideas I was looking for!

I love this forum and the help that everybody is so willing to offer.

Angelo
 
I think Travis' approach is just brilliant. Bravo.

For a while, I made 35mm contact sheets using an older model scanner, the Linotype-Hell Saphir Ultra. Basically a clone of the Umax Powerlook series. 1200x2400, nothing special - but it was transparency-capable, and could do 8x10.

Actually, I've been trying to get rid of it for a while now, but it seems un-sellable. It's pretty heavy, so there's almost no use shipping it, anyway.

Good luck.


Cheers,
--joe.
 
Colman said:
Travis, does the light from the scanner not cause problems or can you turn it off?
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The light in the scanner doesn't seem to be any real issue.
I've been using this method for quite a while now (since I moved and lost my wet darkroom) and have always been happy with the results.

I have actually printed a few at 13x19 and the detail really seems to hold.


Travis
 
Travis L. said:
I use an old cheap Epson scanner (1260 I think) and an 8x10 light box for this, It works great!
Just put negs in a clearfile page and lay on scanner bed with the light box on top, scan into photoshop and invert.

hope this helps.

Travis
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Travis that looks like a very neat way of creating a contact sheet. I noticed though that you have only 30 exposures that will fit on one sheet. Do you only shoot 30 per roll?
 
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