My guess is that as well as a tray for film that there is a special light in the scanner that goes on when you scan film. I worked with a pro one that does slides in a classroom situation and I'm pretty sure it had a longer spectrum of light or something like that if I recall correctly. It wasn't just a question of how the slides were loaded, that particular scanner had a greater depth when scanning slides than the other scnners did. I have one now that supposedly scans slides, and I've never been able to get the same results out of it. They'll scan, but they're not as nice by half...
PQ On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:13:24 -0600, Don Sanderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was looking at an HP scanner at the store today that advertised > '35mm adapter built in'. > The adapter was just a film strip holder that slid into grooves in > the scanners lid. > No light behind it, no gap between it and the lid, all it appeared to > do was hold the negatives flat and straight. > Soooooo... I figured heck, all I have to do is lay a strip of negatives > on the scanner glass and have at it. > So I tried just that with a strip of 4 good 6x6 Agfa Optima negs, the > result was less than impressive! > Even with the best exposed negs the result was just a total mess. > Dark, grainy, no contrast, no definition, nada! > This was done with the negs face up and down, at every setting I > could think of on my scanner. > I could 'invert' the scan and compensate for the mask color OK > but could get nothing usable at all from the image. > I scanned at 300, 600 and 1200 DPI on my HP 750xi and > brought the result into PS CS for editing. > > I'm obviously having a brain cramp here, could anyone please > enlighten me as to what I'm doing/thinking wrong? :-( > > Don > >
