>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.
Hi Gianfranco,
I was using a plain old A4 flatbed scanner without a transparency
adapter. I simply laid the sheet of negs on top of the glass that you
would normally put a page of text or a print on. On top of that, I put
the lightbox, upside down so it is pointing down at the negs, effectively
lighting them from behind. Obviously when the scan starts, the scanner's
own light comes on, but the light from the lightbox is plenty to get the
detail of the negs onto the computer. Then, in Photoshop (or whatever app
you use) simply invert the image from a positive to a negative (if this
was a page of text, it would appear then a negative, but as we're
scanning negatives, this turns them into 'positives', and perfect for
keeping on the computer, or even printing off to keep with the
appropriate neg sheet.
Hope this helps,
Cotty
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