Marcy -
The thing to do is to turn off the automatic features on your scanner.
As you scan each segment the scanner adjusts its settings to make the
"best" reproduction of each segment. Unless they are exactly the
same, it will alter the results so that each segment is different.
The same idea is used when taking a panoramic image using a camera -
an exposure should be manually eastablished and used for each segment,
otherwise it will be difficult to match when putting them back
together (I know, I have been taking panoramic pictures of minor
league ballparks I have been visiting over the past several years -
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hmpi/Projects/Ballparks/Ballparks.htm).
Cheers -
george
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 06:49:18 -0800, Marcy Merrill <marcy@merrillphoto.com> 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
>
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