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Scanning 110 negatives
Hi, I'm in the process of scanning all my negatives so that I have a
complete digital library. I am currently using an Epson Perfection 4180 flatbed scanner. However being (as they say) a silver surfer, I have a number of 110 negatives (20-30 films worth) and I don't have an adaptor to fit these into the 35mm neg carrier. Buying slide carriers would cost a fortune (this would equate to about 500 -600 slides) and would take forever to cut and mount the negs. Having new prints made, that I could scan from, would also be expensive. Some sort of mount that converted them into 35mm size would be good. I read somewhere about mounting them on over exposed 35mm film but you need the film for this. Surely I'm not the only person who wants to digitize thier 110 negs? Any suggestions? |
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Scanning 110 negatives
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Hi, I'm in the process of scanning all my negatives so that I have a complete digital library. I am currently using an Epson Perfection 4180 flatbed scanner. Blimey, same here, I probably have at least 2000 photos. However being (as they say) a silver surfer, I have a number of 110 negatives (20-30 films worth) and I don't have an adaptor to fit these into the 35mm neg carrier. Buying slide carriers would cost a fortune (this would equate to about 500 -600 slides) and would take forever to cut and mount the negs. Having new prints made, that I could scan from, would also be expensive. Some sort of mount that converted them into 35mm size would be good. I read somewhere about mounting them on over exposed 35mm film but you need the film for this. Surely I'm not the only person who wants to digitize thier 110 negs? Any suggestions? Actually I'm about to using an Epson 4490. I'm currently doing my 126 negatives, which fit the 35mm holders, but crop a lot of the image. In the end I found by using a sheet of plain glass (I nicked one from a photo frame) to place over the negative straight onto the flat bed glass, does actually work very well. The 110's are next, although fortunately I don't have as many as you to deal with. You do need to make sure you leave a gap between the end of the negative strip and the edge of the platter, it just produced an almost black image on mine otherwise. And make sure you do put the negative face side down (the numbers need to read back-to-front from above). If you're using the EpsonScan software, then you also need to select the 'Preview' options tab, and switch from Thumbnail to Normal. You then just use the multiple image selection tool as you would normally for multiple photos. I'd suggest scanning the 110's at the highest resolution you have, 4800dpi if you can. I normally scan my 35mm images at 3200dpi which gives me images about the same size as a 6MP camera. -- Andy Hewitt http://www.thehewitts.eclipse.co.uk/ http://andyhewitt.boldlygoingnowhere.org/ |
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