[Gllug] USB A4 flatbed scanners

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:49:04AM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> On a related issue, I've got some negatives which I'd like to put up
> on the web.  Standard way to do this would be to go to a photographic
> shop and have the photos developed onto a CD, but this costs loads of
> money.  I could scan in the negatives, but how would I "negate" them?

For flatbed scanners you need a transparency adapter - basically its
a bright white light that fits into the lid of the scanner to iluminate
the slides/negatives. Without one of these your scans basically come
out opaque :-( Alternatively a dedicated film scanner is the more 
expensive option. With either option, you simply tell you sacnning
software that its a negative & it'll do the negation automatically.
Its typically hidden under a config option 'Media type' - with options
for photo, negatives & slide.

Dan.
-- 
|=-            GPG key: http://www.berrange.com/~dan/gpgkey.txt       -=|
|=-       Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/              -=|
|=-           Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/               -=|
|=-   berrange at redhat.com  -  Daniel Berrange  -  dan at berrange.com    -=|
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 240 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/attachments/20041110/8f277d7a/attachment.pgp>
-------------- next part --------------
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug