Message-Id: <199811171409.HAA28338@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 00:40:29 -0500 From: "Robert A. Baron" <mailto:rabaron@PIPELINE.COM> Subject: Re: Film Scanner query To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
At 07:48 PM 11/16/98 +0000, Joel Wolfson wrote:>>Robert A. Baron, mailto:rabaron@PIPELINE.COM WROTE:
>>Most 35mm and slide scanners that permit scanning negatives and film-strips
>>require negatives be inserted in strips of six or fewer images.
>>Does anyone know of a scanner that permits an entire uncut roll of film to
>>be inserted -- to be scanned one frame at a time, of course?
>>R.Baron
>>mailto:rabaron@pipeline.com
>
>Nope. But I have a bit of a crazy idea that might work. When you get your
>film processed, have the lab mount them in slide mounts and then you can
>use the Nikon LS-2000 which has a stack loader which holds about fifty
>slides. This of course may be a problem if you want to do conventional
>printing. It's a little awkward handling individually cut frames with a
>carrier unless you also want to use a slide carrier for the enlarger.
>
>I should note that I have not yet seen from Nikon an update to their
>scanner software that has a black and white setting if you're doing B/W.
>It only has color options for negs. I'm assuming they will fix this at
>some point.
I guess I should mention why I'd like to have a scanner that will hold a full uncut roll of 35mm. Really simple. I use a lab in LA that dups color negatives into slides for about $6.00 per roll. The only requirement is that the roll must be uncut. For 36 exposures that is about $0.17 per slide (mounted). They'll even do some color correction if done for the entire roll. That's why I generally avoid cutting my negs into strips.
R.Baron