Digital BW, The Print

The film strip holders for my Minolta Dimage Scan Elite 5400 
allows the entire frame to be scanned, but, of course, doesn't go 
out to the sprocket holes (something I thought was cool looking 
a long time ago, but which I quickly grew weary of).  It *is* 
important to me that the entire "live" film area be available when I 
want it (which is most of the time).

With mounted slides, of course. It's a bit tougher: most plastic 
mounts don't work well in the slide film holders of many film 
scanners, especially dedicated 35mm scanners.  There is - or 
was - one cardboard mount used by some European labs which 
used an oversize, square aperture going just beyond 24x36mm.

- Barrett

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "D. Hill" 
<hill14701@y...> wrote:
> Does anybody know of a film scanner in which the film
> holder can be modified to scan the entire frame of
> film with the black borders?
> 
> My darkroom days were filled with filed negative
> carriers - as I prefer the look of printing the
> unexposed film edges.
> 
> Oh, and the photoshop plugins that simulate the look
> are a bit cheesy.
> 
> So, I am looking for a dedicated film scanner that
> will provide at least a 26x38 read area.  Have any of
> you filed or altered your film scanners to do this?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Don
> 
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