Digital BW, The Print

I would be very interested to hear how people are making "contact 
sheets" using film scanners. It would seem very tedious to scan a 
roll of 36 slides in a film scanner and then assemble them in one 
file for printing. Plus using a film scanner would cut out the slide 
numbers on the edge, right?

Someone suggested using a flatbed with a transparancy adapter for 
the proofs and then doing the scan of the selects with a film 
scanner.

Ideas?

This is exactly what I do. I have an old Microtek Scanmaker III 
(found on ebay) which has a very large transparency adapter covering 
a full sheet of negatives in their clear plastic sleeve. It works 
great - if you scan at the full optical res, in my case 600dpi, then 
the file is large enough that I can zoom into anyy frame and examine 
detail. Actually better than a real contact sheet and loupe.
hth
Frank

> 
> Someone suggested using a flatbed with a transparancy adapter for 
> the proofs and then doing the scan of the selects with a film 
> scanner.
> 
> Ideas?