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Scanning 126 and 110 negatives
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I've got some 126 and 110-format negatives that I need to find a way of scanning... Does anyone have any bright ideas about how to scan these formats? I already have a 35mm-capable scanner (Canon CanoScan 4200F), but ham-fisted attempts I've made to construct a mask for it haven't been particularly satisfactory. If anyone knows of a particular scanner model that can scan 126 and 110 negatives, or knows of a ready-made mask I could use with my existing scanner, it'd be much appreciated! Cheers! Terry |
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Terry Tomato wrote:
Hello! I've got some 126 and 110-format negatives that I need to find a way of scanning... Does anyone have any bright ideas about how to scan these formats? I already have a 35mm-capable scanner (Canon CanoScan 4200F), but ham-fisted attempts I've made to construct a mask for it haven't been particularly satisfactory. If anyone knows of a particular scanner model that can scan 126 and 110 negatives, or knows of a ready-made mask I could use with my existing scanner, it'd be much appreciated! Sure it's called a slide mount, if you have a mask for slides, just get some 126 and 110 sized slide mounts, that are 2"x2" in exterior dimensions, you should get self sealing ones, so that you don't need an expensive slide mounter, mount the negatives in the slide mounts, then scan away using your regular slide scanning mask. You may need to crop the scans back to the image size. W |
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On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 01:08:14 -0800, Terry Tomato wrote:
Hello! I've got some 126 and 110-format negatives that I need to find a way of scanning... Does anyone have any bright ideas about how to scan these formats? I already have a 35mm-capable scanner (Canon CanoScan 4200F), but ham-fisted attempts I've made to construct a mask for it haven't been particularly satisfactory. If anyone knows of a particular scanner model that can scan 126 and 110 negatives, or knows of a ready-made mask I could use with my existing scanner, it'd be much appreciated! 126 should be no problem, at least physically. The film is 35mm wide and should fit into a standard film holder. The frame is 28x28mm, meaning the top might get cropped a bit. The likely difficulty will involve getting a good image from a scan of old film that will likely have faded. If the negative is older than 1973, it'll be on C-22 film which started out with a denser orange mask and different color balance than current films. 110 is more difficult. The only scanner I know of for which an official 16mm film holder exists is the very expensive Nikon Coolscan 9000. The optional film holder costs over $300. There's a diagram for a paper mask in a photo.net forum post at http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-...?msg_id=008Xj7 This is for 9.5mm Minox negatives, but I see no reason you can't enlarge the width of the opening to accommodate 13x17mm 110 negatives. I haven't tried it myself, since almost all my 110 film is slides. The only other approach I can think of is to locate some 110 slide mounts. Then you can cut up the negatives you want to scan, mount them individually, and scan them in a 35mm slide holder. If your scanner's software can't handle negatives in slide mounts, Vuescan can. GEPE still makes 110 slide mounts, but they have glass windows that I suspect will interfere with scanning. If you have access to a large photo store that's been around a while, they might have some 110-size cardboard mounts in a closet somewhere, as those haven't been made since the 1970s. There just aren't many other options. Good luck. --- Non-spam e-mail: usenet{AT}tedsimages{dot}com Visit my Virtual Light Table: http://www.tedsimages.com Travel, scenic, and fine art photography |
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Terry Tomato writes: I've got some 126 and 110-format negatives that I need to find a way of scanning... Does anyone have any bright ideas about how to scan these formats? I already have a 35mm-capable scanner (Canon CanoScan 4200F), but ham-fisted attempts I've made to construct a mask for it haven't been particularly satisfactory. If anyone knows of a particular scanner model that can scan 126 and 110 negatives, or knows of a ready-made mask I could use with my existing scanner, it'd be much appreciated! I've scanned both types of negatives. For 110 negatives, I used a Polaroid SprintScan 35. This is an old model (you can pick them up on eBay for about $25-$75) that uses an unusually simple carrier. I was able to create a custom 110 carrier out of a couple of pieces of cardboard, with holes cut out for the frames and taped together. This solution worked well, within the limits of the Polaroid's capabilities. I'm sure I could have done the same thing for the 126 negatives, but by the time I got around to those, I'd gotten a Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400. What I ended up doing for most of the 126 negatives was to scan them in the standard 35mm carrier. Because the 126 negatives are the same height (or width, depending on the strip's orientation) as 35mm negatives, they fit physically in the 35mm carrier, but the inter-frame spacing is off and the tops of the frames are cropped. Most of the photos I wanted to scan were framed too high, so cropping off the top wasn't a big deal. As to spacing, I just did them two at a time, ejecting the carrier and re-aligning the negatives between frames. For the few frames that had important stuff at the top, I either cut the negative strip into single frames and inserted them sideways (cropping one side or the other) or I scanned them on an Epson RX500 flatbed with a transparency feature. Because I did this without a carrier, I got some odd moire patterns, but that was better than having peoples' heads cut off. (Obviously, none of these were high art, just family snapshots from the '60s and '70s.) -- Rod Smith, http://www.rodsbooks.com Author of books on Linux, FreeBSD, and networking |
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Minolta's Dimage Scan Multi line (the original, the II and the Pro) support
16mm as well. They're not cheap either, it's another option, especially if you run across a used unit. On 27-Jan-05 23:48, Ted wrote: 110 is more difficult. The only scanner I know of for which an official 16mm film holder exists is the very expensive Nikon Coolscan 9000. The optional film holder costs over $300. There's a diagram for a paper mask in a photo.net forum post at |
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On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:12:03 -0800, Paul Coen wrote:
Minolta's Dimage Scan Multi line (the original, the II and the Pro) support 16mm as well. They're not cheap either, it's another option, especially if you run across a used unit. On 27-Jan-05 23:48, Ted wrote: 110 is more difficult. The only scanner I know of for which an official 16mm film holder exists is the very expensive Nikon Coolscan 9000. The optional film holder costs over $300. There's a diagram for a paper mask in a photo.net forum post at I have a page on my Web site discussing my experiences with scanning 110 film (mainly Kodachrome slides, but I also discuss negatives). It's at http://www.tedsimages.com/text/scan110.htm It's one of the most popular pages on my site, and most of the queries that take people to it are some variation on "scanning 110 negatives." This suggests that the demand for 16mm film holders on scanners is much greater than scanner manufacturers realize. The Pocket Instamatic and its competitors were very popular cameras for snapshooters in the 1970s and 1980s, and many people have collections of fading negatives in that format. Perhaps it's worth contacting Nikon and Minolta (who else makes film scanners these days?) and letting them know about it. --- Non-spam e-mail: usenet{AT}tedsimages{dot}com Visit my Virtual Light Table: http://www.tedsimages.com Travel, scenic, and fine art photography |
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Terry Tomato wrote:
Hello! I've got some 126 and 110-format negatives that I need to find a way of scanning... snip Just wanted to say thank you very much to those who answered my original query. It all proved very helpful and the scanning is now done. Cheers Terry |
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Terry
Fold an index card in half, in the middle make a 110 format size hole, by cutting it out with an Xacto knife. Now trim the edges so that the whole thing fits in your scanners film holder. Enjoy!! Subminiature lives!! Al Doyle "Terry Tomato" wrote in message ... Hello! I've got some 126 and 110-format negatives that I need to find a way of scanning... Does anyone have any bright ideas about how to scan these formats? I already have a 35mm-capable scanner (Canon CanoScan 4200F), but ham-fisted attempts I've made to construct a mask for it haven't been particularly satisfactory. If anyone knows of a particular scanner model that can scan 126 and 110 negatives, or knows of a ready-made mask I could use with my existing scanner, it'd be much appreciated! Cheers! Terry |
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