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wartree

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I was wondering about scanning black and white 35 mm on my own, instead of paying for digitalizing.
And i want to use a normal scanner, it doesnt have a backlight for scanning film. So i heard about the technique of putting a mirror with a white piece of cloth in top of the film to provide a difuse light.
But will this give a sufficient enlargement, dont i need some kind of magnifieing glass?
Can someone with free time and a helpful soul put here some results of this technique (with only a mirror and white cloth). Now i dont really have the resources to experiment with it, and i would want to see some results before investing some money.
 

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I was wondering about scanning black and white 35 mm on my own, instead of paying for digitalizing.
And i want to use a normal scanner, it doesnt have a backlight for scanning film. So i heard about the technique of putting a mirror with a white piece of cloth in top of the film to provide a difuse light.
But will this give a sufficient enlargement, dont i need some kind of magnifieing glass?
Can someone with free time and a helpful soul put here some results of this technique (with only a mirror and white cloth). Now i dont really have the resources to experiment with it, and i would want to see some results before investing some money.
You started this discussion back in April and the consensus then was it is not capable of providing a quality scan. Not sure why we are revisiting this topic. This experiment is not going to yield any useful results, but feel free to post *your* scans so we can see how you make out:D
 

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I was wondering about scanning black and white 35 mm on my own, instead of paying for digitalizing.
And i want to use a normal scanner, it doesnt have a backlight for scanning film. So i heard about the technique of putting a mirror with a white piece of cloth in top of the film to provide a difuse light.
But will this give a sufficient enlargement, dont i need some kind of magnifieing glass?
Can someone with free time and a helpful soul put here some results of this technique (with only a mirror and white cloth). Now i dont really have the resources to experiment with it, and i would want to see some results before investing some money.

The method you describe produces mediocre results and is extremely labor intensive.

Plan on purchasing a film scanner to get reasonable image quality. Spend your money on a decent scanner they aren't that expensive.

Take a look a the Epson V500 scanners. They are now on sale at the Epson store for$179.

http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/...0|2838672252&gclid=CMDlkNqkr6ICFQG4sgoduxHyRw

As Phil suggests please don't raise this topic again; that method of scanning is strictly a kludge.

But to answer your question, you can make it work, I did it years ago and to conclude it's largely a waste of time.

Don
 
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thanks, i thought you would have forgot about me by now.
i am not really to trilled to spend 179 bucks, especially some people said the scans of it werent great.
 

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thanks, i thought you would have forgot about me by now.
i am not really to trilled to spend 179 bucks, especially some people said the scans of it werent great.

You get what you pay for. Frankly I don't see how you can carp about scan quality if you were considering your original method with a flat bed scanner.

If you want better quality than obtainable from a flat bed consider a dedicated film scanner.

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but can someone post a photo scanned with this method
 

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Hi

even a V300 or any used Epson from 3200 and on up. I paid less than $100 for my 3200 and its quite decent for 35mm

its not such a big spend ... and you can always eBay it off later if you don't like it ;-)
 
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