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Posted by Robert Wright on March 06, 2000 at 17:07:17:
In Reply to: Scan 110/126 negatives posted by John Gillen on March 05, 2000 at 23:01:15:
: Anyone know of equipment for scanning 110/126 negatives
: into PC? I have equipment for 35mm, but it is inadequate
: for smaller sized negs.
: Thanks for any help.
What do you mean by inadequate? Resolution (ppi) may or may not be a problem depending on the target output. If resolution because of the smaller format is the reason, then you would need to look for a higer resolution scanner.
If you mean the 110 and 126 negatives won't fit you film holder, there are several options. I have scanned 110 and Minox 8 x 11mm formats by simply mounting negatives in 2 x 2 slide mounts and using the scanners options for scanning slides. 126 format is actually 2mm larger than the short side of 35mm format so you would loose those 2mm.
A better option is to fabricate a mask to hold the negative strips in a film holder. See http://www.bayarea.net/~ramarren/photostuff/scanmask/scan-mask.html for a suggestion. This site contains a simple plan for the Minox mask, but a similar design will work for other formats.
Basically any format smaller than the 35mm format can be scanned in this manner if the resulting resolution is satisfactory.
Bob Wright
Editor's Note: The following response is appended:
Posted by John Gillen on April 02, 2000 at 13:37:50:
Thanks. By inadequate I actually mean two things: One - the quality of my scans are degraded compared to the negative mainly due to the small size - when enlarging they begin to lose substantial quality; second - many of these were taken with lower light (or have lost it during time) so they tend to be much darker than 35mm slides I scan.
I have tried the Polaroid slide scanner with not much better results. I was hoping to find some equipment which would provide a better light source to enhance the quality. Projecting my 35mm slides on a standard slide projector shows a decent quality picture, but, alas, with the scanner's slide adapter the slides suffer. Mostly that's true for the 110 negatives as well.
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