Peifer, William [OCDUS] wrote: > Bruce Dayton wrote: > > Those of you who scan 120 film - how do you do it? Do you have > > issues with film flatness?
> I'd be interested to find out as well what everyone's experience is > with this. I use an Agfa Arcus 1200 which will scan anything. I just can't get a sharp scan with it using the film holders. I also have contrast problems on occasion; it mustn't have SMC optics. But for the price I can't really expect much. Agfa has gotten out of the scanner business so there don't seem to be many options for medium/large format film scanners on a tight budget. > Haven't done any of this myself, and I was wondering if > it's possible to simply sandwich the negative between thin glass > plates. The Arcus 1200 can do that, but I haven't tried it. I've had some slides scanned this way on a Duoscan T1200 (similar to the Arcus) and ended up with nasty newton rings which are impossible to remove from the file. I do not recommend using glass plates or plastic sleeves or anything. > I thought I'd try scanning > 6x7 negatives by laying them directly on the bed of my cheap CanoScan > D660U, then back-illuminate them either by setting a lightbox on top, > or by reflecting the scanner's built-in front-illuminating light > source with some sort of home-built adapter (kind of like the > transparency adapters some of the flatbed scanners currently use). The transparency adaptor would be the best way to go but you may see newton rings. A light box just doesn't throw off enough light for scanning. I tried it once :) Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/ (out of date) - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
