I have some old negatives that are approx 2 x 3 inches and are curled by age. Is it possible to feed them into this scanner without them jamming?
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It might be tough to feed them into this scanner. I had a hard time feeding some of my really old pics. You might want to seek out a professional for your negatives. Good luck.
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I have some that were curled lengthwise (4 or 5 pics to the full length) & it worked fine
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I have been scanning strips of negatives. A negative strip has to be at least 3 frames long, but if you have only one negative there is a single frame holder that you can use. The scanner has setting for negatives or slides. The negatives I have done so far have turned out fine when downloaded to my computer. BE careful of your fingertips on the negatives, one scan had a nice thumb print on it. Hope this helps.
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This particular scanner, the Kodak 4x6 P461, has a specific feeder into which you insert the negatives. It seems to me that it would not work for negatives that are not 35mm in size. I have not researched other scanners to see if they would be able to scan other negative sizes. Good Luck!
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The picture scanner part of this unit is adjustable. It could scan old film strips, negatives, etc.
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There are two caddies that come with the scanner. One does normal slides and 35 mm negatives. The other one has an opening that is 2 1/4 x 8 1/2. I think you could do the slides there. I have used it for older over-sized negatives with good results.
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I would guess you could scan any negatives smaller than 35mm. You would need to use a photo editing program to clean it up and if part of another picture showed up cut it out.
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I know it did not scan the old studio portraits I have of my ancesters, taken years ago. The cardboard material of those is not thin enough to pass through the scanner, maybe because it is curved. It may be the same for mounted slides, though I did not try any of my mounted slides. Sorry, that's all the help I can give.
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I'm not sure about scanning negatives of different sizes, but from my experience I think you would be better off scanning the prints (if you still have them) rather than the negatives. I have scanned mounted slides (positives) and the dark ones don't scan very well (grainy). However, I have no complaints about any of the prints I have scanned.
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Not really. I tried scanning OLD poloroid photos that were glued to the back of cardboard, you may be too young to remember those, but it didn't like those too much and I used my big copier/scanner for those. Also, it likes some old newpaper and not other so I would be careful about what you put thru. It did an amazing job on my photos, tho, like we got printed in the old days from Walgreen's so you can compare your project to those items. My Mom uses it for her printed out geneology that is on regular 20# printer paper and it does great. Don't know if I answered your questions but I tried.
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Agree with BigBadBalrog - it works fine with mounted slides. But, it is a one at a time process. We have mostly used the scanner for 35mm negatives and that works well as long as the film piece is long enough - otherwise you need to insert the negative in a holder (included).
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yes, that is one of the reasons i purchased the scanner. You van put as many pictures on the scanners as will fit. You simply need to leave 1/4 inch between each.
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I did scan some very old negatives from the '30s, but it is not easy. Back then, negitives were in all kinds of shapes and sizes. The scanner does just fine, but the software is poor. I did this a few years ago, so as I remember, I used Gimp on a Linux machine. Otherwise, the Epson software expects the negative to fit into one of the included frames. Using this process, it took a few minutes of fiddle with the settings to scan just one negative.
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Thanks SO much, Liberty! I've been trying to find a scanner to preserve old photos digitally, but several are larger than 8.5x11", i.e. 11x14", so I need a bit larger glass to fit them. I expected this to be easy...not so! My old scanner is that big, but it only plugs into an old-style desktop computer, not USB2 laptop, and now I am wondering if I can find a plug adapter so I can use the old scanner for the big photos. Likely the scanner software won't recognize XP!
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The product is not set up that way, the holder is designed for slides only, you could buy individual slide mounts and cut your negative to fit to try. Camera digital sensors do not record positive film in the way a scanner does (scanner software turns negative to positive}.
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The scanner is capable of scanning them, the problem is you will need to make a special holder for the negatives. 126 slides are no problem.
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I recently used my scanner to scan some older negatives (from 1958) that were larger than 35 millimeter film. Just laid it on the glass surface and it worked fine. Had 2 negatives that were badly curled, so I held 2 edges down with thin flat pieces of plastic~ this worked great also.
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My guess is that you could scan the negatives without using the 2 1/4 inch carrier by just laying them (emulsion side up) on the glass But I don't think the light source will illuminate the extra width evenly and the edges will be darker than the center. You could scan these negatives in two strips, making sure each edge is within the illuminated boundary. Then carefully assemble the pair in Photoshop, sort of the way you would assemble a panorama of separate images. You could scan really large negatives that way. This is a very good scanner for very little cash. If this workaround works for you, you wouldn't need a much more expensive scanner for larger format transparencies or negatives. My guess is that you could scan the negatives without using the 2 1/4 inch carrier by just laying them (emulsion side up) on the glass But I don't think the light source will illuminate the extra width evenly and the edges will be darker than the center. You could scan these negatives in two strips, making sure each edge is within the illuminated boundary. Then carefully assemble the pair in Photoshop, sort of the way you would assemble a panorama of separate images. You could scan really large negatives that way. This is a very good scanner for very little cash. If this workaround works... » Read More My guess is that you could scan the negatives without using the 2 1/4 inch carrier by just laying them (emulsion side up) on the glass But I don't think the light source will illuminate the extra width evenly and the edges will be darker than the center. You could scan these negatives in two strips, making sure each edge is within the illuminated boundary. Then carefully assemble the pair in Photoshop, sort of the way you would assemble a panorama of separate images. You could scan really large negatives that way. This is a very good scanner for very little cash. If this workaround works for you, you wouldn't need a much more expensive scanner for larger format transparencies or negatives. « Show Less