Bill Peifer wrote: >Bruce Dayton wrote: >> Those of you who scan 120 film - how do you do it? Do you have >> issues with film flatness? > > >I'd be interested to find out as well what everyone's experience is with >this. Haven't done any of this myself, and I was wondering if it's possible >to simply sandwich the negative between thin glass plates. I noticed that >the Epson 2450 accommodates large negatives, but don't know if it would >accommodate a "sandwich" such as I describe.
Supposedly there's a big problem with Newton rings if you do this with ordinary glass. Most MF film scanners have special "anti-Newton-ring" glass in their carriers, although I'm sure I don't know what goes into this stuff. I've read enough about it from unbiased sources that I don't think it's marketing hype. >I won't be buying a 2450 any time soon, since I'm still using my limited >budget to acquire 6x7 accessories. I thought I'd try scanning 6x7 negatives >by laying them directly on the bed of my cheap CanoScan D660U, then >back-illuminate them either by setting a lightbox on top, or by reflecting >the scanner's built-in front-illuminating light source with some sort of >home-built adapter (kind of like the transparency adapters some of the >flatbed scanners currently use). Either that or you could phone me up and arrange to come over and try out my Minolta Scan Multi II :-P It only goes to 1125 dpi for medium format but the results from my 645 transparancies are *very* nice. Blown up with Genuine Fractals they're beautiful up to 12 x 16 size (the biggest I've tried). 67 stuff could only be better! -- Mark Roberts www.robertstech.com - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
