Digital Negatives questions

Hamish Stewart & Sophie Colmont (Hamish.Sophie@wanadoo.fr)
Mon, 27 Apr 1998 08:08:24 +0200

I have a general question for the list regarding digital negatives. I am
wishing to begin exploring this path for making negs for my gum prints,
and I have been reading various articles etc about the procedures.

Some questions that arose

1. I have read that you should use a drum scanner for scanning negatives,
and then send the files to a film bureau.
Now I am wondering, is it possible to use a flatbed scanner?

2. What dpi should you scan at for a scanned neg?

I know from the list that a number of people are using inkjet printers to
output negs - I wanting to make slightly larger negs, and of strange
sizes so I want to use a film bureau. So do you tell the film bureau -
right reading emulsion down, with a 225 dot screen?

Thank you for your replies

Regards
Hamish