Re: scanning loooong negatives

Cut the neg in 3 sections and scan them all at once in the 5x7 window. Cut
and paste to a new image on the computer. Do you cut the negs to store them
in sliives or do you keep the long roll?
Richard Heather
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcy Merrill" <marcy@merrillphoto.com>
To: <pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 6:49 AM
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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