Re: [Leica] How to accentuate the positive?

["Bryan Willman" <bryanwi@seanet.com>]

I am trying to work out, but have not finished
yet, a system in which rolls of color neg film
are scanned on a flat bed scanner, inverted
and adjusted, and then displayed on a computer
screen and/or printed.

The premise is that one can make contact sheets
much faster this way than in a darkroom, and you
get help from the computer for storing and
cataloging.

But I haven't got it going yet.

If anybody gets something like this to work,
let me know.

bmw

- -----Original Message-----
From: Dr James Harper <DRJH@btinternet.com>
To: Leica User Group <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Sunday, November 15, 1998 1:29 PM
Subject: [Leica] How to accentuate the positive?


>I have a 50-years accumulation of some thousands of colour positive, colour
>negative and monochrome  material (mostly lacking contact prints) which I
>think that it is about time to have a clear-out of while I can still
>remember what they are about. Some might be worth keeping for  historical
>reasons. Colour slides are fairly easy to review, assuming that you have
>the time.  Black and white negatives I can read and interpret  adequately,
>though slowly.  Colour negatives I find difficult to interpret quickly,
>and I have too many of them for it to be sensible to have them all
>contact-printed.
>
>Is there an easy solution to this problem?  There was, about 10 years ago,
>a Tamron gadget called something like Fotovix which connected to your TV
>and immediately converted colour or black and white negatives into
>positives.  It is no longer made (but still crops up second-hand
>occasionally) so presumably was not successful/popular.  And may have been
>long-winded in operation anyway.  Has anyone experience of it?  Is there
>any more modern/sophisticated solution, apart from the overkill and time
>demands of scanners?
>
>Apologies for this rather retro request for advice. In mitigation, I should
>say that most of the material  was  photographed  with various Leitz
>cameras and is  fragrant with bokeh.
>
>Many thanks in anticipation of the usual generous and knowledgeable
>responses.
>
>JH
>