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RE: RFI - Scanner for B/W negatives

Subject: RE: RFI - Scanner for B/W negatives
From: "Chris Owens" <>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 22:14:32 -0000
I recently scanned a load of glass negatives from India (on my wife's
side of the family). I used a Epson Perfection 1640SU. This is a flatbed
with a light box theat fits on the top. I was pleased with the results.

Chris.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Syd Curtis  
> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 12:02 AM
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> Subject: [Nature Recordists] RFI - Scanner for B/W negatives
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> 
> I know this is not what naturerecordists is about, but I 
> crave your indulgence, arguing that photography is a way of 
> recording nature, and knowing that Naturerecordists 
> collectively represent a wonderfully wide body of knowledge 
> and experience.
> 
> My mother was an excellent nature photographer within the 
> limits of the technology of the day - circa 80 years ago:  
> Thornton-Pickard half-plate camera and B/W glass plates.  Had 
> photo-essays published in the local "Queenslander" newspaper; 
>  made it into a recent Queensland Museum book "Their 
> Brilliant Careers" - being biographies of naturalists of 
> note, not generally celebrated in their day because they were women.
> 
> I have some hundreds of these glass plates.  Mother developed 
> them herself, as she considered that locally-available 
> commercial firms didn't wash them properly, thus jeopardising 
> their permanence.
> 
> Can anyone advise me please, whether there exists a scanner 
> that would scan these into a computer (Mac G3 - OS 9.1) and 
> allow them to be printed as positives.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Syd Curtis (Brisbane, Australia)
> 
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