Re: Horizon 202

[petermarshall@xxxxxxxxx (Peter Marshall)]

> - Can anyone tell me the best way to scan negatives/slides from a 
> Horizon?  I
> know it is probably fairly easy to scan both "halves" with a filmstrip 
> scanner
> and "stich", but since no standard slides will work with these 
> negatives,
> would you be better off using a high end flatbed (such as an Agfa 
> Duoscan or
> Arcus II)?  How do some of you users get quality scanning of Horizon
> negatives?

I think you are better off with a film scanner. I use one which can only 
scan 36x24mm, though it is possible to get film scanners that will scan 
the whole neg at one go. I don't understand your reference to slides, 
scanners usually take neg strips, though you will need to adapt most neg 
carriers I've seen to scan full frame. 

Software is available that will stitch the two scans, but I find it more 
satisfactory to do the job manually in Photoshop - it only takes a minute 
and you can be sure to get the match to the nearest pixel. Of course you 
need quite a lot of memory to work with large files.

I don't have the manual to hand (and its in Russian), but the figures you 
give seem reasonable. DOF is in any case very dependent on final image 
size, and in the end sharpness is a subjective concept.  

Peter Marshall

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