Digital BW, The Print

Your other alternative is a 120 format scanner with a glass neg 
carrier, such as the Nikon 8000/9000ED. The glass carrier is 250.00 
extra, but does a good job of keeping either format completely flat, 
and obviuosly would give you all your 35mm slide, and then some.
Also, a flatbed would do the same, though a flatbed that's as sharp 
as either the Polaroid or the Nikon might cost even more.

Steven Karafyllakis


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "D. Hill" 
<hill14701@y...> wrote:
> 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@b...> 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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