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Subject: [OM] Film scanner on the cheap?
From: Chuck Norcutt <norcutt@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 08:11:29 -0400
It occured to me that one might be able to produce a "film scanner" very
cheaply by:

using a very inexpensive flat bed scanner and projecting the image of a
slide onto the scanner surface with a slide projector or enlarger. The
imaging surface would have to be a ground glass or other opaque surface
and might be achieved simply by grinding the existing glass with a very
fine grit.

Anybody ever try something like this.  Is it workable or a dumb idea? 
Could it be as simple as taping a piece of waxed paper over the glass to
form the imaging surface?  I'd try it if I had a scanner.

Chuck Norcutt
Woburn, Massachusetts, USA

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