or.... you can scan a hole bunch and then use something like irfan view to do a batch convert.....

Subj:Re: Digitizing Glass Plates
Date:6/14/2006 6:39:59 PM US Mountain Standard Time
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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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Thanks,

Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC

See the Museum's Web Site at  www.smecc.org

We are always looking for items to add to the museum's display and ref. library  - please advise if you have anything we can use.

Coury House / SMECC
5802 W. Palmaire Ave.                          Phone    623-435-1522
Glendale Az 85301  USA




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