Re: [photo-3d] Primefilm 1800 Film Scanner

["C. Pflanze" <troggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Robert Thorpe wrote:

>I just bought one of these and I haven't had as much success
>as I would have liked. It seems to do a pretty good job
>with transparencies but so far, negatives leave something to
>be desired. Perhaps I am just not up to speed, but it is 
>certainly NOT a situation where you put the neg in, hit the
>GO button, and presto-chango you have a great scan.

This problem is sometimies discussed in detail in the Usenet newsgroup

rec.photo.digital

You might find some threads listed at deja.com

>Your negs need to be almost perfectly exposed.

Additional hardware and software processing happens when scanning negs.
This puts a burden on the less expensive scanners.  Nikon makes a good
neg scanner, you can pay up to a $1000 for one - out of my budget right
now, but I've never shot stereo prints so far.