Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm probably the last person on the planet to discover this, but in case
> I'm not, here's how I came across making contact sheets of negs using a
> flatbed A4 scanner.
>
> I tried it just laying the sheet of negs on the flatbed, but it was so
> dark as to be useless. I then removed the flatbed's cover, and on top of
> the neg sheet (which are on top of the scanner's glass) I carefully
> placed an upturned lightbox, switching it on at the last moment (to avoid
> excessive heat, which I don't think is a problem). Once scanned, in
> Photoshop it is a simple case of inverting the image to reveal them as
> positives, a bit of contrast correction and hey presto - fine contact
> sheets. My only problem is my lightbox isn't big enough to cover a 7-neg
> sheet of strips 6 frames long :-(
>
> Does anyone else do this? And if so, have you any tips?
Hi Cotty,
I tried many times to do that, because the slide/negative accessory cover of
the scanner does not allow to have more than 4 frames from the strips to be
scanned. I usually have a look at the negs by scanning them, but I'm still
looking for a way to have the entire roll scanned at once. What kind of
settings were you using? If I set the scanner to do negs or slides it
automatically covers only a little portion of the A4 frame.
> Cheers,
Ciao,
Gianfranco
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