You can get acceptable digital contact sheets by three methods that I can
think of:
1. Normal reflective flatbed scanner with negatives in a full-page sleeve:
a. Use a white background and scan at 300dpi, Invert the image in
Photoshop. (I've gotten so-so results like this.)
b. Use a piece of glass on the platen and a diffuse source such as light
table above the scanner. This sounds nice, but I haven't had the time to
try it.
c. If you have a high-end flatbed scanner, you can use the 8x10
tranparancy options, but few of us have access to those expensive machines.
2. Roll-film options on Nikon scanners - This works well to scan a roll at a
time , but not when you've already cut up the negatives.
3. Put the negatives on a light table, cover them with glass, and shoot them
with a Digital Camera. This looks like the easiest option, but I haven't
tried it yet.
IMO, the "best" option is to do normal, darkroom contact sheets. It's cheap
and easy to see your mistakes. All the digital options seem very
convoluted.
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From: Roger Wesson <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] archiving... how to make a contact proof with a scanner
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:11:31 +0000
Hi,
I've tried scanning negs on a flatbed with a mirror, but it doesn't
work. Not sure why. I think if you put a lightbox on top it might work
- there's some stuff about this on photo.net. If it's only for contact
sheets it's probably a reasonably straightforward thing to do.
Roger
> Stephan VAN DEN ZEGEL wrote:
>
> at last, I managed to get all my negs and slides together... but the
> pictures and contact proofs are lost (or not related anymore)...
> so ... Is there a way to scan negs and slides to make low resolution
> A4 pages of contact (just to keep with the negs...)
> I have a very nice Nikon ls2000 but it would take years to scan every
> picture... I need a practical solution...
> does anyone ever tried a mirror on his faltbed scanner... and then
> reverse the colours ? or is there ready made solutions ?
> I have more than 500 rolls to archive... and would prefer to do it
> electronically ... and economically...
>
> Stephan...
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