scanning advice
scanning advice
- Subject: scanning advice
- From: rudy harvey <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 12:39:32 -0700
An easy low cost solution to the items with uneven surfaces is to take them outside
in the sunlight and re-photograph
them with a polarizer on your lens. Sunlight is already polarized so you only need to
filter the camera. Position the
original as flat as possible and rotate the polarizer until most or all of the
reflections are gone. Please bracket your
exposures, and you will have to compensate overall exposure because of the filter.
Best done with sun at highest
level (high noon)
Something we have done to eliminate scratches on color prints is to
mount them exactly like a transparency on
a drum scanner. This is done with oil and covered with mylar. Should
help fill in the uneven surfaces.
Conventional color prints are resin based and will not absorb the oil,
so it will clean off with film cleaner.
To be safe though test it with a drop of oil first.
This can be done on a flatbed also you just have to be real careful with
the oil. I have made an oil dam with
tape to prevent the oil from spreading.
good luck
rudy harvey