cyrus
29-Oct-2009, 10:31
I have a whole bunch of MF and LF and 35mm negs in those clear plastic negative sleeves and I want to scan them to make digital copies to file with the copyright office. I don't intend to scan each frame separately and instead want to create electronic contact pages of each sleeve (I figure even the small scans of the 35mm frames should be sufficient for the purposes of copyright, so I won't need to blow them up.)
The scanner I can use (not mine - I don't do much digital stuff) is an Epson Stylus Pro v750. I thought I could just lay the sleeve on the scanner-bed and press "Scan" and that's all -- but it turns out that the sleeves are slightly larger than the scanner bed and so part of the negs are cut off in the resultant image.
I'd hate to have to scan the negative strips individually since taking them out of the sleeves and putting them back would be a pain -- I have about 150 sleeves to go through. So is there a quicker, less PIA way of doing this?
The scanner I can use (not mine - I don't do much digital stuff) is an Epson Stylus Pro v750. I thought I could just lay the sleeve on the scanner-bed and press "Scan" and that's all -- but it turns out that the sleeves are slightly larger than the scanner bed and so part of the negs are cut off in the resultant image.
I'd hate to have to scan the negative strips individually since taking them out of the sleeves and putting them back would be a pain -- I have about 150 sleeves to go through. So is there a quicker, less PIA way of doing this?