Is this only for 35 mm color negatives? I am looking for something to view b/w negatives.
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The viewer would work with b&w; negatives if the negative is housed in a frame, similar to a slide. The feeder mechanism is not designed for negatives in strips.
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I haven't tried black and white negatives but I can't imagine why it wouldn't work. As I have said to others, the best results for this unit are scanning actual prints. This unit will scan negatives at 1200 dpi but there may be better negative scanners out there. This is a great unit for scanning a large pile of prints to an SD card at a low cost (still very time consuming).
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apologies, I am not able to answer your question. When I saw that the negative holders were not big enough for my old bw negatives, I sent it back without looking into the accessories or operation.
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I no longer use this unit for color negatives. There is reverse vignetting, a general excess of blue between dark gray and almost white, and a large absence of red and even green that is centered in the darker medium tones. I have many black and white negatives that I have not tried yet because I have older 1.5 million pixel scans of them. Theoretically speaking, I expect that the reverse vignetting and color problems would be much less visible on conversions of black and white negatives.
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Pana-Vue remote scanner will scan 35mm negatives & transparencies. With proper add-ons will copy 126 negatives and 110 negatives. It will not accept anything larger. So-3" pieces of film are definitely not going to work. I wish they would. I have some old black & white large format negatives that I cannot copy.
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It does scan 35 mm film; I haven't tried those but I did try to scan an 8 x 10 black and white which did okay but when you scan that size, you can only scan at a very low dpi so it was not a quality scan. Okay, but not quality. It does scan 35 millimeter at a much higher dpi and I suspect those would be pretty high quality.
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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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The system simply makes a digital copy of 35 mm film of what ever is put in the film holder. If it is a black and white negative or a color negative it will just copy them. However, there are some photo programs that can "invert" the colors (or black for white) to give you a positive out of your negative. One free one is Google's Picasa3 that can be downloaded to your computer. I have been quite happy with the results. However, colors could have faded or changed since the picture were taken, but you have some ability to tinker for improvement.
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Wondered if this machine will scan black and white negatives that are larger format than 35 mm. Our historical society has many old negatives.
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I'm looking for a way to scan the negatives too. FilmscanUSA has an adapter that supposedly works. I have tried to scan a 110 negative and it works but because the 35mm slot is too big it is hard to keep the negative in place.
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It does negative film but not sure how 12mm would work. It does 35mm negative film.
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No, most negatives are in a five or six shot strip which won't fit down inside the viewer slot (unless you shove only one end of the strip in) and then they'd be inverse to view anyway. Slides or transparencies only I'm afraid. For negatives, try a light table or tray to sort and view or a scanner with negative capability.
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Sorry, I never scanned a B & W negative. All I scanned were "normal" 35 mm slides that scanned to color .jpgs. Assuming, the same happened, a B & W negative would probably scan to a B & W .jpg.
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My experience with the Pandigital for color and black and white photographs is absolutely wonderful. I love this machine. For negatives I am using another machine a negative converter to digital. You can find them everywhere, in Bestu Buy, Amazon.com and inclusive in Walmart. They are very inexpensive and work wonders on negatives. Again, I love my Pandigital but I use it only for photographs. I hope I was able to help.excelent
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I tried your suggestion and it seems to work for a single frame. Like the original poster, I have many strips of 126 negatives and would like to scan all four frames at once. Is that possible?
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Yes, "guruofvinyl" is correct. There is a setting in the software to scan negatives. It's quite effective.
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I haven't tried that yet but it is supposed to scan any 35 mm color or black and white negatives. The only 35 mm slides it would not scan are the dark ones that could only see spots of light like distant street lights and such.