Message-Id: <mailto:199607242212.RAA25923@library.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 17:10:02 -0700 From: George Holmes <mailto:george.holmes@MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU> Subject: Re: color negatives To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
Hey, I'll try it tommorow. We just obtained a Minolta QuickScan 35 and it's a beaut but so far I've only done slides on it. I'll get some negs and give you an opinion soon.
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>>>I've been told that NO scanner can successfully scan color negatives. Does
>>>anyone have any experience refuting this claim?
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>Several people have posted that some scanners can, indeed, scan color
>negatives. Our AGFA with its transparancy adaptor, and our new HP Scanjet 4C
>are SUPPOSED to be able to do this, but in fact they do not. The AGFA images
>come out bluish, and it apparently has something to do with the orangish
>color of the emulsion on color negs.
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>What I am really trying to find out if anyone has SEEN images scanned from
>color negs, and if so, what kind of scanner was used.
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>Thanks.
>Victoria Yturralde
>Photographic Archivist
>Calif. Dept. of Parks & Recreation
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