[filmscanners] RE: Making contact sheets on a flatbed scanner

["Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>]

Hi,

I use an Epson 836XL tabloid scanner for making contact sheets.  It's 800
SPI, and you do not need to reverse anything, it has a negative setting.  It
makes fine contact sheets.  Only issues are at 800 SPI the files are quite
large, and the disk fills up quite fast...so you really need to either have
lots of hard disk space, of have the facilities to store the files on
another media if you want to save them electronically.

Make sure the scanner you select has a transparency area large enough for
your needs, which is why I went with a tabloid size scanner.

Regards,

Austin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of
> david_bookbinder@sprynet.com
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 7:39 PM
> To: darkroom@ix.netcom.com
> Subject: [filmscanners] Making contact sheets on a flatbed scanner
>
>
> I just unpacked a box of some several hundred rolls of developed
> film which
> I had, for the many years I've been lugging it around, always assumed also
> had the contact sheets. Now I find they are missing, perhaps for good. I'm
> figuring I could generate reasonable electronic contact sheets by placing
> the negatives (b&w) in acetate sleeves and then scanning the page
> of sleeves
> and inverting the result. Can anyone who has successfully done
> this give me
> some hints as to either where to go to find a good workflow for this
> procedure (bearing in mind that I will be doing it several
> hundred times) or
> pass on a bit of his or her own wisdom?
>
> Thanks,
> David

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