Hi!

Sounds like you need the tranny head for your Expression 800!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2779702807&category=44977

Have a look-- if you can pick this up, your problem is solved. If not this
one, others show up all the time on ebay, and in used equipment stores.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad Davis
> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 6:09 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [filmscanners] Scanning 8X10 negs
> 
> 
> Hi, I have about 100 8X10 negatives (B&W) That I need to 
> scan.  They are from a time when I had the camera and a wet 
> darkroom (and an 8X10 enlarger).
> 
> I have a flatbed scanner (Epson expression 800) and a 
> Polaroid 35MM -4000 dpi scanner.  I don't see a good way to 
> use the 35 MM scanner, although it has occurred to me that I 
> might photograph the negatives - perhaps on Ilford XP2 and 
> scan those negatives (done with a  proper copy rig).  The 
> other alternative I have considered is to obtain some POP 
> paper (it is available) and make contacts which I scan using 
> the Epson. (a third possibility - using a sony 707 -5 Mpixel, 
> seems like it would lose too much quality).  I have had good 
> success with using the Epson to scan the few contact prints 
> (on regular silver chloride paper), that I still have.

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