I once had a vendor tell me he could digitize many, many photographs per hour.  It took a fair amount of work to explain why a rotary scanner was not appropriate for glass negatives and lantern slides.

You'll want to put the images on the scanner emulsion side down -- in contact with the platen.  However, you may wind up with the image laterally reversed.  (Maybe some scanners automatically reverse the image when doing a transparency.)  Be sure to check your model.

-- Richard Pearce-Moses


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  Get a scanner that goes up to 4x5 negatives or traspanances.....   the instructions that come with the scanner will be all you need.

  Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC



    Good question Allaina; and could anyone tell me where I can find instructions for digitizing glass lantern slides?

    Thanks,
    Karen



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