From: Sam Wang (stwang@CLEMSON.EDU)
Date: 03/07/01-09:45:57 AM Z
Unless your scanner came with a transparency adapter, it is
difficult, though not impossible, to rig up your own light.
Instead I would use a digital camera to capture it. Even a cheap
camera with close-up lenses will do a better, quicker, job than
trying to scan it on a flatbed that does not have that feature. Just
make sure it is properly back-lit.
That is NOT to say that you can't use the flatbed as a camera plus
all kinds of additional lights for illumination. I have seen gorgeous
prints made from flowers captured exactly this way.
Hope this helps.
Sam Wang
>Hello,
>I am presently researching an old autochrome of Yosemite National Park
>as to possible photographer and date. My first challenge is to
>successfully scan the image. My scanner is not designed for
>transparencies, so I'm having to improvise (experiment). My scanner is
>a Hewlett Packard OfficeJetPro 1150C (combination flatbed scanner,
>copier, printer).
>I have tried placing a mirror face down on top of the autochrome to try
>and reflect light back through it, but this did not work. I have also
>tried placing a small "light box" with a typical translucent white
>plexiglas surface face down on the autochrome to shine light through
>it. This produced an image, but it added wide horizontal streaks
>parallel to the scanning pattern, and the color was badly distorted.
>Has anybody had any experience in trying to get a standard scanner to
>scan transparencies by using an outside light source (or any other
>method)?
>Any help would be appreciated.
>Thanks.
>Ed Herny
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