Hi, I've asked this before and then been side tracked.
I'm still looking for a flatbed scanner that I can use for my 8X10 B&W negatives. I have something between 300 and 500 to scan and then I will never need that functionality again (sold the 8X10 camera about 7 years ago after not using it for a decade) - there won't be anymore. I've considered contact printing them in the kitchen (imitating Ed Weston with his frame and a 25 watt bulb hanging from the ceiling). I've done that and can get very good quality from such a print process. I would consider that if someone (Laurie?) were to take the position that I wouldn't get equal quality from any (inexpensive, used) flatbed scanner working directly with the negative. I'm not dying to set up even a temporary darkroom though, much as I miss the smell of hypo. If that, contact printing, along with my Epson Expression 800 is really a good solution, let me know that. But, if there is a better (reasonably priced) solution that I might find on eBay, I would like to know what that might be. If the suggestion is to contact print the negs, then, are there any suggestions as to how to set up the contrast? - I doubt that making my usual somewhat contrasty print with deep blacks is the best way to go if I know that I am going to scan the result. Thanks. Bradford ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
