> In the old days (70s) one could take a roll of microfilm to your local xerox > shop and for a tidy sum they would print it all out and even bind it for you, > and presto, your own facsimile. > What do people do today? I have heard that some scanners allow you to scan > it in and then print it out, but they all seem to just do single slides. > The only microfilm to paper machines I have found are very expensive. > All suggestions much appreciated. Thank you. > > Sandy > -- I use a very low end transparency scanner - A Pacific Primefilm 1800. It's the cheapest available in Britain. It's lousy for scanning photgraphic slides but I've found it fine for microfilm.
I scan in colour and then do a few twiddles in Photoshop. I'm sure you could do adjustments in other image editing programs than Photoshop. It's a bit tedious to do. You can only scan one frame at a time - takes about 40 seconds, I suppose. You can take forever doing adjustments in Photoshop but I usually do just a few things and then resize. It's worth the effort to have things scanned in, though. You can zap through the pages you've scanned. You can zoom in on details etc. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
