We are using a Microtek 9800XL with transparency media adapter. The glass plate negatives I have done on it have turned out beautifully. The Colorado Digitization Program has a great resource page on digital imaging: http://www.cdpheritage.org/resource/index.html. You might also want to check out Jill Koelling’s book Digital Imaging: A Practical Approach (http://www.altamirapress.com/).
Karen Keehr
Curator, Research Department
Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer
3133 West Highway 34
Grand Island, NE 68801
308-385-5316, fax 308-385-5028
www.stuhrmuseum.org/research
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Subject: Anyone using a film
scanner to print photos?
Our museum has a huge collection of film negatives, from 35 mm to large format. We currently use traditional darkroom methods to reproduce photos from negatives, and while we don’t have any plans to discontinue the art of darkroom work, we do want to stick our big toe in the digital pond. So I’m on a fact-finding mission. I would like to hear from anyone who uses film scanners to reproduce a photograph directly from the negative: what type/brand of scanner you use, what your experiences are with it, etc.
Thanks in advance for your insight.
Susan Young
Shiloh Museum of Ozark History
Springdale, Arkansas