Re: Scanners: another question

Reed Hutchinson (mailto:macreed@UCLA.EDU)
Wed, 25 Feb 1998 10:43:53 -0700 

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Date:         Wed, 25 Feb 1998 10:43:53 -0700
From: Reed Hutchinson <mailto:macreed@UCLA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Scanners: another question
To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU


>Is anybody using scanners for glass negatives? I was told by an Agfa

>agent that the Horizon couldn't deal with the thickness because it put

>it's lamps out of phase (or something like that) but that the Linotype

>Ultras (and the UMAX Mirages) could. Anyone?

>

>Thanks

>

>

>

>Darren Umney

>

>Societe Jersiaise Photographic Archive

>Jersey, CI, UK

mailto:>dazzer@itl.net


I've used the Agfa Arcus scanner quite successfully on Glass Negatives -
Even on ones that were in pieces.


I simply jigsaw puzzled the pieces together on the Scanner, and touched up
the scan in Photoshop. The results were quite satisfactory.