I bought a scanner from Staples that had a frame inside for holding negatives during scanning. The scanner was built like a normal scanner , scans from the bottom up with a white back ground on the lid.
With this scanner I was able to scan and print some B & W photo's. This worked good for normal negatives but when I got to darker negatives it didn't work, the photo.s came out all white. 50 years ago when I was toying with B & W Photography I would just give it a little more time in the print box but now I can't give it a little more time in the scanner. So I took a sheet of white glass and put that on my old contact print box, lite up the dark negative, took a Macro photo with my camera then reversed it and printed it out, and it came out quite good. So my question is there a scanner for negatives that uses my way of lighting the negative from behind instead of a reflection, maybe around $200 - $300 , Thanks, David Ward [email protected]
With this scanner I was able to scan and print some B & W photo's. This worked good for normal negatives but when I got to darker negatives it didn't work, the photo.s came out all white. 50 years ago when I was toying with B & W Photography I would just give it a little more time in the print box but now I can't give it a little more time in the scanner. So I took a sheet of white glass and put that on my old contact print box, lite up the dark negative, took a Macro photo with my camera then reversed it and printed it out, and it came out quite good. So my question is there a scanner for negatives that uses my way of lighting the negative from behind instead of a reflection, maybe around $200 - $300 , Thanks, David Ward [email protected]