RE: scanning loooong negatives

Watch out when scanning along the long dimension of your flatbed
scanner. These have a section that must be kept clear when using the
transparency adapter. On my epson the film holder has a slot at the
top. If your long piece of film runs into this area the scanner will
not be able to calibrate itself.

Chris

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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] scanning loooong negatives
> From: "Brian Reynolds" <reynolds@panix.com>
> Date: Tue, March 01, 2005 11:06 am
> To: pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org
>
> 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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