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Article #211Re: scanning 2 1/4" negatives
From: Reed Hutchinson
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 00:00
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>I am in the process of buying scanning equipment to convert our Television >Production Photographs into a digital archive. We have many different film >formats to consider but the 2 1/4" negatives (mainly from the 50,s and 60's) >are a major concern. Is it true that they would have to be mounted, I >presume like slides, before scanning with a slide-negative scanner? This is >what we have been told by a vendor, or should we be using a flatbed scanner? > Most of the negatives are in strips of 2 - I really don't want to cut them. > Any advice would be appreciated. >Lynda Barnett >CBC Design Library & Still Photo Archive We've been using the Kodak RFS 3570 for a couple of years now and it does a fine job with strips of 2-1/4 (120) film...It will handle everything from 35mm up to 2-1/4 X 3-1/4 I not sure, but I don't think there's a holder available from Kodak for _Mounted_ large format slides - I believe they have to be un mounted for scanning. 35mm has both an mounted and unmounted holder. Hope this helps.
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