Re: scanning loooong negatives

Marcy Merrill wrote:
> 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

If your scanner can handle 5x7 film, why don't you scan in the 7 inch
direction?

You don't mention what type of scanner you have. If your scann is
supported, you might want to try Vuescan.

    <URL:http://www.hamrick.com/>

One of its features is to allow you to lock the scanner exposure after
previewing part of the roll. That should make it a bit easier to
stitch the parts back together. If you overlap the scans a bit, you
might be alble to use panorama stitching software to rejoin the scans
into one image.

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