Digital BW, The Print

Barrett,

Thanks for your input as this is the scanner I am
considering for purchase, and it is great to hear that
you can get the full view of the negative.  I am not
interested in scanning out to the film sprockets, but
just a sliver of the unexposed edge around the image. 
I am not opposed to using a enlarged slide mount.

If I recall, there are gepe slide mounts that have a
40x40mm opening - possibly these would allow the
largest film scan available. Specs of the unit show
that it scans at 24.61 x 36.69mm - so I may be able to
utilize this scanner.

Thanks again for the input.

Don 

--- Barrett Benton <bwbenton@...> wrote:
> 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


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