Digital BW, The Print

They call it PrintFile for a reason, but no, it's not as good in a scanner. It's fine for my contacts. However, I've had to make letter size prints(single frame) from old wet contacts of 35mm. So you need to set your own standards.

Many older scanners like my microteks required a light lid to replace the regular lid. One light would illuminate from behind and the other would scan the emusion.

There is a web source for good glass and holders should you go down that path.

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On 10/14/2009 at 7:08 PM Lew wrote:

>Thanks, Pete:
>
>I take it that the lid of the scanner contains the light source, the bed 
>is clear glass & the scanning lens move underneath... is this correct? 
>Not that I'm interested, but this sounds like it works for 
>transparencies & negs, not opaque material like prints. How does the 
>scanner handle these?
>
>Don't the PrintFile pages reduce sharpness and/or cut down on the 
>density range of the negs?
>
>Also, from my attempts to work with another scanner and some very curly 
>film, putting a sheet of glass on top produced Newton rings rendering 
>the scans unusable. I didn't try glass over PrintFile, though.
>
>Thanks again for taking the time to respond at length!
>