scanning B&W negs

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gphickey@yahoo.com wrote:
> I have many 35mm Ilford HP5+ negs accumulated over years of having a
> chemical darkroom. I need to scan, manipulate and create files I can
> send to a book publisher. Any ideas on what I need in terms of
> equipment and software to do this. I hear that this type of negs are
> difficult to scan because the silver scatters the light. I don't want
> to spend any more money than neccesary. I am fairly computer literate.
> Please email me your response.
> Thanks George

I suggest you have them scanned commercially as that should cost less
that the type of scanner that would be needed. You then could do your post
scan processing yourself.


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Joseph Meehan

Dia's duit

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<gphickey@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I have many 35mm Ilford HP5+ negs accumulated over years of having a
> chemical darkroom. I need to scan, manipulate and create files I can
> send to a book publisher. Any ideas on what I need in terms of
> equipment and software to do this. I hear that this type of negs are
> difficult to scan because the silver scatters the light. I don't want
> to spend any more money than neccesary. I am fairly computer literate.
> Please email me your response.
> Thanks George
>
My simple cheap HP Scanjet 4070 scans slides and both colour and mono negs
without any problem. They may not be the highest resolution scan imaginable
but they're adequate, and I see no evidence of scatter.
H.

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> <gphickey@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1114360140.724696.58960@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>> I have many 35mm Ilford HP5+ negs accumulated over years of having a
>> chemical darkroom. I need to scan, manipulate and create files I can
>> send to a book publisher. Any ideas on what I need in terms of
>> equipment and software to do this. I hear that this type of negs are
>> difficult to scan because the silver scatters the light. I don't want
>> to spend any more money than neccesary. I am fairly computer literate.
>> Please email me your response.
>> Thanks George
>>
> My simple cheap HP Scanjet 4070 scans slides and both colour and mono negs
> without any problem. They may not be the highest resolution scan
> imaginable
> but they're adequate, and I see no evidence of scatter.
> H.
>
>
>

Sorry, I don't see the very first post of the thread anymore on my server.

These scans :
http://dhost.info/photocanon/mai1968/index.htm
have been done with the negative and slide scanner PrimeFilm 1800u from
Pacific Image Electronics.
Rather cheap. Scans to 1800 dpi, hardware. Probably enough.
http://www.scanace.com/en/product/1800u.php

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Mike