RE: scanning loooong negatives

Hi Marcy,

I tried scanning in pieces two or three years ago and ran into the
same problem. The scanner was an Epson, and I was using the Twain
import to Photoshop software. Every scan was "corrected" by the
scanning software and couldn't be stitched together becuase the
correction made to each piece was too radically different to be fixed
inside Photoshop. The place where I bought the scanner told me there
is nothing that can be done.

The "correcting" problem was greatly alleviated when I downloaded a
newer version of Epson Scan software. In the configuration window,
color tab, there is set of radio buttons for the type of color
correction to make. I chose "No Color Correction" and it helped a
lot. My guess is that the software you're using would have a switch
like this.

Here is recent but still poor example of scanning. I have tried to
smooth out the two places where the scans were stitched together, but
it is one *(^&%~$ of a lot better than before.
http://f295.tompersinger.com/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b=CP,m=1109204155

Tom

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> [mailto:owner-pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org]On Behalf Of
> Marcy Merrill
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 8:49 AM
> To: pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org
> Subject: [pinhole-discussion] scanning loooong negatives
>
>
> Okay you buncha geniuses, I poked through the archives and
> couldn't find
> anything about scanning long negatives. I've made a pinhole
> camera using an
> old Kodak movie can. www.merrillphoto.com/canorama.htm
> It's got 20 holes and uses 35mm film. So, there's one
> exposure on a piece of
> film that's about 2 feet long. I've got a scanner that'll
> scan negatives up to
> 5x7. So I can scan this negative in bits and paste it
> together. My problem is
> that each scan is slightly different and the end result
> shows where everything
> was pasted....AND it takes too darn long ... AND it doesn't
> look very good. Is
> there a better way? I suppose I could make a contact print
> and scan that and I
> might have a little bit better result. Thanks in advance! -Marcy
>
> www.JunkStoreCameras.com
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