Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/13

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Subject: [Leica] Film scanner for Linux
From: mail at gpsy.com (Karen Nakamura)
Date: Thu Jan 13 22:44:37 2005
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>
>My father, a photographer during his service in the Military, left
>behind several boxes of large and medium format negatives - mostly B&W
>negatives taken with a Speed Graphic camera.  The negatives are mostly
>3.25x4.25, along with some 220's.  I need a flatbed for general use,
>but because I want to scan these negatives for printing and
>preservation, it is important that I get a flatbed scanner that does a
>good job with film.

The new Epson or Canon 4800 dpi bed scanners should do a fine job on 
the medium and large format negatives. I have specs on them here:

        http://www.photoethnography.com/technique/darkroom.html

Karen


-- 
Karen Nakamura
http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/
http://www.photoethnography.com/blog/

In reply to: Message from telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr) ([Leica] Film scanner for Linux)
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