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From: John Lancaster <>
Subject: Re: [SP] large negatives
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 19:32:05 -0600
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Here's a site that shows how to make a "backlighter" for use on a flat bed -
and even has a full-sized template that you can print onto a sheet of white
paper to lay it out for you. Just need some extra-white paper and aluminum
foil (unwrinkled).

http://www.abstractconcreteworks.com/essays/scanning/Backlighter.html

trapper
John Lancaster
Trapper's Genealogy on the Web:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jclancaster/
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Sisson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 12:23 PM
Subject: [SP] large negatives


>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I *really* want to scan some older negatives, some from the 1920s and
1930s.
> They are too large for my HP Scanjet 5470c.
>
> A week or two ago on this forum, I responded to someone's idea of building
a
> "light box" to illuminate slides larger than 35 mm. I asked for details -
> like the size of the light bulb, the dimensions of the box relative to the
> scanner's glass plate, the materials to use for it, what to use for the
> "light-diffuser glass." (I assume that any special setup for scanning
large
> negatives would need to have a light-diffuser glass similar to the
standard
> one used for 35 mm negatives.)
>
> Maybe you folks whose scanners *aren't* designed to accept negatives or
> slides would be able to use such a box?
>
> Does anyone know if there are books or Internet sites about scanning that
> would cover scanning large negatives? Maybe they call it scanning
> "transparencies"?
>
> Thanks.
>
> David Sisson
>
>
>
>
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