Maybe, but the enlarger has a focusing ability. I'd lay a piece of paper on the scanner first and focus the same way I would for an easel. Thus the projected image would be perfectly focused on the scanner glass. I'm reasonable sure it can't be this easy though or somebody would be selling this long ago. But I keep thinking all the scanner is doing is passing the light through from the top through the negative to the scanner sensor. How the scanner would react to nothing solid there though I'm not sure. Possibly the enlarger would have to be focused on the scanner sensor itself rather then the glass? Most likely I'm just spinning my wheels. However I'm hoping someone that has an enlarger at home will actually try this and report back to tell me how crazy I am! hint hint 8).
Dave -----Original Message----- From: Steve Jolly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 7:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: enlarger for scanning? You'd have focussing problems I think... it's too late to work out exactly what they'd be though :-) S David Miers wrote: > > Has anyone ever tried using a flatbed designed for scanning negatives with a > chemical darkroom enlarger? I've been tossing this idea around and think it > might actually work. You would of course have to work in a dark room > lighting type of situation here as well to avoid outside light affecting the > scan. Instead of scanning a tiny negative, you would be scanning an image > as large as a print. Any thoughts? I'm wondering if you would have to get > a different light source then is normally used in an enlarger though? In > the scanner bake off at James Photography a 1200 dpi scanner using a > reflective device of some sort clearly had the best appearing image thus > far, although the MTF numbers were the lowest. Anyone know what kind of > setup that is? > > http://www.jamesphotography.ca/bakeoff2004/scanner_test_results.html > > Currently the very bottom one on the list. > > Dave >
