Re: Scanners: another question

Terry Abraham (mailto:tabraham@UIDAHO.EDU)
Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:08:40 -0800

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Date:         Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:08:40 -0800
From: Terry Abraham <mailto:tabraham@UIDAHO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Scanners: another question
To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU

We have used the Microtek Scanmaker III for glass negatives without
problems of that sort. The transparency adapter on the Scanmaker actually
rides up to compensate for overly thick items, but I do not recall that a
glass negative causes that behavior.

Terry Abraham Head, Special Collections and Archives

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On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, darren umney wrote:

> 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
>