Steve Jolly wrote: > > Ann Sanfedele wrote: > > The holders just hold the neg in place, I can't > > image it would affect color > > They also hold the negs away from the all-important first centimetre of > the glass, which the scanner uses to calibrate itself when in > transparency mode. Put *anything* in this region and it's anybody's > guess how the scan will come out. (See > http://www.elvum.net/gallery/holga/police_trafalfar_square_bad_scan for > just one example; overall casts are perfectly possible too...) > > S
Looks like it was my brain contributing to the problem.... I didnt realise how crucial the holder was... (which is silly of me, because I had used the technique of not pressing something right up against the glass when I was scanning real objects. ugh.) However the first neg I was scanning that had a problem, had been in the holder, now that I think of it... boy, I sure feel stupid. Thanks much for this.. better than the manual (which I can't find anyway:) ) ann
