3 Jul
2006
3 Jul
'06
7:19 a.m.
Philip Pemberton wrote:
I could (in theory at least) bodge up a cardboard carrier for my
flatbed scanner (an Epson Perfection 2400 Photo) and use that, but I
don't rate its optical quality for transparency film very highly.
I used a Perfection scanner to scan a fiche. Microfilm should be even
easier, assuming
you mean the 16mm format with images that fill that frame. The images I
scanned with
the epson were about 1/8" on a side, or maybe 1/3 the size of the 16mm
frame size for
an 8 1/2" x 11" image on a 16mm microfilm roll.
The biggest problem with the epson would be how to feed the frame thru
the scanner.
If you had some moviola reels you could mount them on either side of the
unit and
spool to an empty reel on the other side, I suppose.
I used settings to produce a g4 compressed tiff with the same bit
resolution as
a 400 dpi scan of 8 1/2 x 11 would produce with my epson and it worked okay,
though I had to manuall position a scan box over each image on the
microfiche
sheet, and scan.
Jim