Scanning Full Strips of Negs With Umax Astra

I know this going to sound like a strange question so I will try to
detail exactly what I am trying to do as well as the equipment I have.

I would like to be able to scan strips on negs sprocket holes and all
into positives on a Umax Astra 3400(same as the 3450 without the
transparency adapter)

My hope is that I will be able to download one of the Umax drivers and
force this to work. The reason is that I want to be able to stitch the whole
negs again with sprocket holes into a pattern to correspond with the images
on the film. I know longer have access to a color darkroom so I can't create
the contact sheet I need mechanically plus I don't want to slice all my negs
apart.

Any Suggestions will be helpful

Ray Creveling

"DIANE TORTAROLO" wrote in message
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I know this going to sound like a strange question so I will try to
detail exactly what I am trying to do as well as the equipment I have.

I would like to be able to scan strips on negs sprocket holes and all
into positives on a Umax Astra 3400(same as the 3450 without the
transparency adapter)

My hope is that I will be able to download one of the Umax drivers and
force this to work. The reason is that I want to be able to stitch the
whole
negs again with sprocket holes into a pattern to correspond with the
images
on the film. I know longer have access to a color darkroom so I can't
create
the contact sheet I need mechanically plus I don't want to slice all my
negs
apart.

Any Suggestions will be helpful

Ray Creveling


You really need a transparency adapter.

There is a trick that these people used that works.

They took a fluorescent flash light, placed the flashlight on the negative
and scanned the normal (reflective) way.
http://www.afn.org/~afn11300/slides.html

And
http://www.abstractconcreteworks.com...uoroflash.html

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"Herbert West" wrote in message
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On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 15:21:35 GMT, "CSM1" wrote:

You really need a transparency adapter.

There is a trick that these people used that works.

They took a fluorescent flash light, placed the flashlight on the
negative
and scanned the normal (reflective) way.
http://www.afn.org/~afn11300/slides.html

And
http://www.abstractconcreteworks.com...uoroflash.html

Hmmm... Would disabling the scanners internal lamp improve the
results?

It seems to me that it would, as you would eliminate the unneeded,
undesirable reflective element. Also, since the scanner and the
flashlight use different frequencies for exciting the fluorescent
lamps, they might interfere in weird ways.

All this assumes that the internal lamp can be disabled without the
scanner's diagnostics shutting the scanner down due to a "fault."

I don't know.

To disable the scanners lamp would require some hardware hacking.

I am only giving links to these sites because it seems that these people had
success.
If you really want to know whether it works or not, try the ideas and see if
they work.

I have seen those fluorescent flash lights in the sports section of
Wal-Mart.

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