Those scans look very nice. I've been considering the HP scanner for home,
and it's nice to see some of the work that can be done with it. Great pics,
BTW.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: Questions about film scanners
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 15:34:52 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >1. Can film scanners be used for colour negatives? Does all that orange
get
> >in the way? And if they can, can Photoshop (or something) reverse the
colour
> >to give you a print that looks like a paper print would have?
>
> Most scanners (well, every film scanner I've ever seen, actually) do the
color
> reversal and compensate for the orange color mask of negatives
automatically.
>
> >2. If you have 35mm slides in paper or plastic mounts, do you have to
take
> >them out before scanning in a film scanner (or risk losing sharpness)?
>
> I think they almost all accept mounted slides (again, I've never come
across one
> that didn't) and some but not all allow you to scan unmounted slides.
>
> I'm using an HP Photosmart S20 at the moment. It's a good basic film
scanner. It
> scans slides (mounted only) and negatives as described above (and prints
up to
> 5x7, too). Have a look at my latest web page of photos at
> http://www.robertstech.com/dfmc/_index.htm. These are all relatively
> low-resolution scans but you can get an idea from them.
>
> Mark
>
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