John I believe that was me. I use a color corrected lightbox and a SVHSC camcorder, but any good quality camcorder with macro will work. You are not using the videotape record function, although you could to record images to tape. I get great results this way. It is fast if you just want low quality to proof, but I get excellent quality in the higher scan mode - it just takes a little longer to process. (less than a minute though) The trick is to cover all the open areas on the lightbox so that only the negative is being lit and no other light is bouncing around. I accomplished this by cutting black matboard to the size of the lightbox with an opening for the negative frame carrier that I made of matboard as well. The carrier is hinged on one side with heavy fabric tape so you can insert and remove negs easily without damaging them. I have one for 35mm and another for medium format. I used to use negative carriers on the lightbox, but found the matboard to work better. The video camera stays stationary and the negative moves over the lightbox inside a mat "sandwich". Also, the Snappy has a built in conversion mode for negatives and gives you a color preview window. It has different settings for various quality and size scans as well as color correction sliders and cropping after you scan. I use Photoshop for this though. The negative conversion feature works great. I have had excellent scans on the high quality setting and printouts on my EX up to 8x10. I mostly use this setup for putting my photos on videotape or computer for display to clients. I plan on purchasing a Minolta Dimage Multi for higher quality scans that I will print out on my EX or 3000 with archival ink. The Snappy gives great results for the price though! Check out their website at www.play.com Regards, Murray Zaharia Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. Anything in Latin sounds profound. ----- Original Message ----- From: John Bradbury <johndbry@interlog.com> To: epson list <epson-inkjet@leben.com> Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 7:42 AM Subject: Tan negs /slides and scanning > 1. I get the digest version of this list and whilst browsing last week > noticed someone mentioned under the general topic of scanning negs vers > slides the name SNAPPY a device to capture video input as a cheap > alternative to scanning. > I would like to know how to achieve success with this I've tried it through > a Fotovox and its slow and output seems to be very unreliable sometimes you > get an image sometimes not. colour management is iffy from the video display > and overall sharpness is to put it mildly- diffused! > Maybe I'm doing something wrong. > 2. Re scanners I'm considering a Agfa Duoscan T1200 but also see that > Microtec have a similar scanner which they claim 3.4 Dmax. this for about > the same price Anybody know anything about this > John Bradbury > See us at > http://www.littlebarn.com > > > > - > Please do not include an entire message in your response. Delete the excess. > http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions. > - Please do not include an entire message in your response. Delete the excess. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions.