Holding negs down with a piece of glass works after a fashion, but you usually get some moire. Special glass or plastic made for that purpose works better. I think Epson sells it.
> On Dec 16, 2019, at 11:20 AM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 12/13/2019 21:00:07, [email protected] wrote: >> I have the Epson V500: when my mother reached her 100th. birthday in 2018, >> my brother and I scanned all of her negatives, ranging in size from 1.5inches >> square to 6x9cm and going back in time to the 1900's. We were unable to scan >> the >> 110 size negs as the scanner's holders can't really hold them flat enough. >> The >> scanner did an excellent job (I have to confess we used the Epson software >> for >> this job!) overall, even with some really flat and mushy originals: makes me >> think some early cheap cameras really did have bottle-bottoms for a lens. >> >> John in Brisbane >> >> >> > > When I was in school we just used a piece of glass to hold paper flat while > exposing it. I wonder if that would work to hold negatives flat on the > scanner bed? > > Maybe cut out an appropriate sized hole in a piece of black construction > paper to fit the 110 negatives and hold both down with the sheet of glass? > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
