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[joebloggs]

your negatives, you could scan them using a tma adaptor
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/f...cname=bps05614

part of my job is testing scanners, sold a couple of ex corp high end business scanners for nearly £1k each in the last few wks

thats brings me on nicely to scanning all your important docs, passports, certs and visas to pdf files, anything important now i make a scan of it to file and to print on a color laser. some of the copies are nearly as good as the orginals

[JimOttley]

your negatives, you could scan them using a tma adaptor
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/f...cname=bps05614

part of my job is testing scanners, sold a couple of ex corp high end business scanners for nearly £1k each in the last few wks

thats brings me on nicely to scanning all your important docs, passports, certs and visas to pdf files, anything important now i make a scan of it to file and to print on a color laser. some of the copies are nearly as good as the orginals

Agreed Joe, I could but I tried already and the time involved is enormous, I have thousands and they range from half plate through 620, 120, 135, 127, 126 formats.

There are always dynamic range issues when scanning photos or negs, you often lose a lot of the subtlety of the original.

I find these days that the best and fastest way to copy documents (and photos) is to use a digital reprographic setup i.e. a good digital camera on a stand with lights and a lens that performs reasonably at close range. But even then I don't have the time I would like to do it all, these are projects for old age and my brother in law has volunteered at least my sister volunteered him


Jim