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In article , bmoag
writes Flatbed scanners will not work attached to a light box because unless they have transparency scanning capabilities there is no way to turn off the scanning light. I'll bet that comes as a rather irritating surprise to all of the people who have managed it! One of the earliest hardware jigs available to scan film on a flatbed was simply an internally reflective corner that reflected the light from one half of the flatbed over, across, down and through the film laid out on the other side of the glass. Worked a treat and many people bought them or, even better, made their own. http://tinyurl.com/6qwtc gives instructions to build just such an adapter that is even cheaper than Tom's $25 light box, in fact it probably costs less than 25c and works just as well. -- Kennedy Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed; A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's ****ed. Python Philosophers (replace 'nospam' with 'kennedym' when replying) |
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:21:58 +0000, Kennedy McEwen
wrote: In article , bmoag writes Flatbed scanners will not work attached to a light box because unless they have transparency scanning capabilities there is no way to turn off the scanning light. I'll bet that comes as a rather irritating surprise to all of the people who have managed it! One of the earliest hardware jigs available to scan film on a flatbed was simply an internally reflective corner that reflected the light from one half of the flatbed over, across, down and through the film laid out on the other side of the glass. Worked a treat and many people bought them or, even better, made their own. http://tinyurl.com/6qwtc gives instructions to build just such an adapter that is even cheaper than Tom's $25 light box, in fact it probably costs less than 25c and works just as well. Genius, you guys are all geniuses! tracy |
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Thanks for the tip!
The reason I went for the $25 4x5 transparency sorter is that it was in my budget and it worked with the HP scanner I had at the time. It is fun to experiment and show the nay sayers there is more than one way to the mountaintop. Thomas Edison once said he NEver had an unsuccessfull experiment for he learned from them all...including the ones where the results were not what he was looking for. Have fun. Yours, Tom wrote in message ... On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:56:04 -0500, "Tom Ellliott" well, I tried something pretty weird. I taped the negative to the glass, covered it with a piece of paper, and held a cheap clip-on lamp over it. It came out looking like an old tintype. it would be cool, if that was the look I was going for. tracy |
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Thanks for the compliment. In reality we just like to play and make money at
the same time...which is also to have been said that having fun and making money is impossible. Tell that to the late George Burns who attributed his long life to only doing what he wanted to do. Cheers Tracy it is a great big sand box out there. Yours, Tom wrote in message ... On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:21:58 +0000, Kennedy McEwen wrote: In article , bmoag writes Flatbed scanners will not work attached to a light box because unless they have transparency scanning capabilities there is no way to turn off the scanning light. I'll bet that comes as a rather irritating surprise to all of the people who have managed it! One of the earliest hardware jigs available to scan film on a flatbed was simply an internally reflective corner that reflected the light from one half of the flatbed over, across, down and through the film laid out on the other side of the glass. Worked a treat and many people bought them or, even better, made their own. http://tinyurl.com/6qwtc gives instructions to build just such an adapter that is even cheaper than Tom's $25 light box, in fact it probably costs less than 25c and works just as well. Genius, you guys are all geniuses! tracy |
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:26:04 -0500, "Tom Ellliott"
wrote: Thanks for the tip! yore welcome. The reason I went for the $25 4x5 transparency sorter is that it was in my budget and it worked with the HP scanner I had at the time. It is fun to experiment and show the nay sayers there is more than one way to the mountaintop. Thomas Edison once said he NEver had an unsuccessfull experiment for he learned from them all...including the ones where the results were not what he was looking for. I love it. It helps a lot with the no-budget amateur film-making too, no? PS I used one of those blue daylight lightbulbs. I also tried it with the paper taped on the lamp rather than on the glass. You have to hold it still to avoid gettng those streaks on the scan. |
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:21:58 +0000, Kennedy McEwen
wrote: In article , bmoag writes Flatbed scanners will not work attached to a light box because unless they have transparency scanning capabilities there is no way to turn off the scanning light. I'll bet that comes as a rather irritating surprise to all of the people who have managed it! One of the earliest hardware jigs available to scan film on a flatbed was simply an internally reflective corner that reflected the light from one half of the flatbed over, across, down and through the film laid out on the other side of the glass. Worked a treat and many people bought them or, even better, made their own. http://tinyurl.com/6qwtc gives instructions to build just such an adapter that is even cheaper than Tom's $25 light box, in fact it probably costs less than 25c and works just as well. the thing about it is, that as I'm understanding, the width of the box would have to be a t least 4", probably more to comfortably cover a 4x5 negative. Why not just cut out the front face of the cereal box, and line that with foil? hmm...I'll try it. tracy |
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Keep up the spirit of experimentation.
Thomas Alva Edison would have loved to have you as partner. Yours, Tom wrote in message ... On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:21:58 +0000, Kennedy McEwen wrote: In article , bmoag writes Flatbed scanners will not work attached to a light box because unless they have transparency scanning capabilities there is no way to turn off the scanning light. I'll bet that comes as a rather irritating surprise to all of the people who have managed it! One of the earliest hardware jigs available to scan film on a flatbed was simply an internally reflective corner that reflected the light from one half of the flatbed over, across, down and through the film laid out on the other side of the glass. Worked a treat and many people bought them or, even better, made their own. http://tinyurl.com/6qwtc gives instructions to build just such an adapter that is even cheaper than Tom's $25 light box, in fact it probably costs less than 25c and works just as well. the thing about it is, that as I'm understanding, the width of the box would have to be a t least 4", probably more to comfortably cover a 4x5 negative. Why not just cut out the front face of the cereal box, and line that with foil? hmm...I'll try it. tracy |
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:55:44 -0500, "Tom Ellliott"
wrote: Keep up the spirit of experimentation. Thomas Alva Edison would have loved to have you as partner. Yours, Tom ah, thank you very much. I'm afraid it didn't work. |
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Oh well, it was still a succesfull (spelling??) test for you found out what
Did Not work. Keep on trucking. Yours, Tom wrote in message ... On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:55:44 -0500, "Tom Ellliott" wrote: Keep up the spirit of experimentation. Thomas Alva Edison would have loved to have you as partner. Yours, Tom ah, thank you very much. I'm afraid it didn't work. |
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