"Contact prints"

Hi, I have roughly 150 pages of negatives that I'd like to "contact" print
with my flatbed scanner (normal reflective type of Microtek.)

Has anyone tried this -
Leave the scanner open, put the negs on the bed of the scanner, put a piece
of plate glass on top of the negs (they are in neg files and need to be kept
flat) put a bright light above the scanner (in a darkish room) and run the
scan?

I'm not overly concerned with quality - I just want to get the scanned
images into photoshop convert them from negative to postive and print out
the sheet and staple it to the negative file... I want a good enough scan to
tell me what is on the negs...

Any advice? Light type (halogen vs tungsten, vs fluorecent etc) bulb
wattage...
I'm going to start experimenting - I'll let you kow if it actually works...

Mark

"Mark Durrenberger" wrote in message
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Hi, I have roughly 150 pages of negatives that I'd like to "contact" print
with my flatbed scanner (normal reflective type of Microtek.)

Has anyone tried this -
Leave the scanner open, put the negs on the bed of the scanner, put a
piece
of plate glass on top of the negs (they are in neg files and need to be
kept
flat) put a bright light above the scanner (in a darkish room) and run
the
scan?

I'm not overly concerned with quality - I just want to get the scanned
images into photoshop convert them from negative to postive and print out
the sheet and staple it to the negative file... I want a good enough scan
to
tell me what is on the negs...

Any advice? Light type (halogen vs tungsten, vs fluorecent etc) bulb
wattage...
I'm going to start experimenting - I'll let you kow if it actually
works...

Mark


I can tell you that a regular fluorescent lamp will make lines in the scan.
You will get line corresponding to the 60 Hz line frequency.
You will need a very high frequency light source or a steady light such as
from a battery powered flashlight.

These people did it this way. Maybe you can use their ideas for a start.

Using a fluorescent Flashlight to Scan 35 mm Slides on a Flatbed Scanner
http://www.abstractconcreteworks.com...uoroflash.html

Digitizing A Slide Using My Scanner
http://www.afn.org/~afn11300/slides.html


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