Nice idea John - I did try something similar, but the negatives had curled so much during poor storage in a humid sub-tropical location I still ran out of time (and patience!) to get them satisfactorily scanned.
John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: PDML <pdml-boun...@pdml.net> On Behalf Of John Sent: Tuesday, 17 December 2019 2:21 AM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: spotmatics and unexposed film and gfm, oh my On 12/13/2019 21:00:07, jco...@iinet.net.au wrote: > I have the Epson V500: when my mother reached her 100th. birthday in > 2018, my brother and I scanned all of her negatives, ranging in size > from 1.5inches square to 6x9cm and going back in time to the 1900's. > We were unable to scan the > 110 size negs as the scanner's holders can't really hold them flat > enough. The scanner did an excellent job (I have to confess we used > the Epson software for this job!) overall, even with some really flat > and mushy originals: makes me think some early cheap cameras really did have bottle-bottoms for a lens. > > John in Brisbane > > > When I was in school we just used a piece of glass to hold paper flat while exposing it. I wonder if that would work to hold negatives flat on the scanner bed? Maybe cut out an appropriate sized hole in a piece of black construction paper to fit the 110 negatives and hold both down with the sheet of glass? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
