"Seagull_k1" wrote

Have you seen, encountered, or heard of a way
to use an enlarger to transfer negatives and
slides to digital?

Physics problem:
Q: "How would you use a barometer to tell the
height of a building."
A: "Take the barometer to the building manager
and offer to give him a nice shiny barometer
if he will tell you how tall the building is."

In the same vein, place an add on Craigslist:
"Want to trade enlarger for scanner. Please contact ..."

That's not helpful, I know, but it is a better
solution.

A long time ago there was a recurrent thread about
placing a flat-bed scanner under an enlarger.
I think someone may have gotten it to sorta-kinda-work,
but it doesn't have anything to recommend itself even
in theory.

I have discovered that half of what I enjoyed
about my photography is now missing.

So why not go back to a traditional darkroom for
the times you feel the urge? It's easy to set
up a temporary darkroom. If you work at night
then the blackout problem is made much easier.
Many of use have 'dry' darkrooms in which the
running water is supplied by running with a bucket.

Then scan the resulting prints. I find scanning
silver prints gives much better results than
scanning negatives.

--
Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio
Darkroom Automation: F-Stop Timers, Enlarging Meters
http://www.darkroomautomation.com/da-main.htm
n o lindan at ix dot netcom dot com