A3 size neg needs to be scanned - where? / Who ?

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I have a friend who swears blind that she has an a3 size negative that she wants to get scanned. It seems huge to me unless it has been made as an interneg or something.

Anyway can anybody recommend somewhere she can get it scanned ?
 
The best thing would be to get it scanned with a normal A3 document scanner at a high resolution and then invert it in Photoshop.

But I'm with you... a negative that large is pretty rare...
 
An A3 neg is very approx 12" x 16" which is a perfectly feasable sized negative to have although it's certainly not the norm to see them very often.

As for scanning: I don't personally know of an outlet that could do it. An alternative is to place the neg on a lightbox, photograph it with a DSLR then convert to a positive in PS
 
It wouldnt work on a normal scanner as you need the light through it not bounced off it. Does anybody have such a thing as an A3 scanner with a film/transparency attachhment ?
 
Hodders said:
It wouldnt work on a normal scanner as you need the light through it not bounced off it. Does anybody have such a thing as an A3 scanner with a film/transparency attachhment ?
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Indeed, a bit of a brain fart on my part, apologies.
 
find a friend who works at a hospital and has a x-ray viewer lightbox on the wall - slap the neg on that, and photograph it :lol:
 
If she wants a quality scan there are many pro scanners capable of this, the scan Area of the Dianippon Screen Cezanne or Cezanne Elite is A3 size for the best quality scan of course a Drum scan would be the way to go. I know that Base2Studio could do this their prices for drum scanning are here. I have no connection with them I just happen to know their drum scanner can do A3 scans as I have the same model and belong to the same yahoo group for that scanner.

Any where with a Heildbourg Tango could certainly do it to or a Howtek 7500 there are several other pro flat beds and drums that will do A3 plus but the ones mentioned are the main ones to look for.

Colour in those sizes is rare but Kodack will cut ULF sizes to order and it is only in the last four years that Provia is no longer available in 11x14


Edit for another couple of links found googling the model numbers

Hunter print Flatbed Machine : • Screen Cezanne Elite FT-S5500 Scanning Area • 329 mm x 530 mm

HunterPrint Drum • Crosfield Celsis 5250 CASC Drum Scanner Scanning Area : • 508 mm x 711 mm
 
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Hodders said:
It wouldnt work on a normal scanner as you need the light through it not bounced off it. Does anybody have such a thing as an A3 scanner with a film/transparency attachhment ?
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Well, yes, but maybe not absolutely...

When I was scanning all my old negatives last year I found an envelope with 6*9 negatives in it, from an ancient folder that I only ran one film through. I couldn't think what to do with them, so I stuck them on myall-in-one prin scanner to see what I got...



And then got hold of a copy of gimp and inverted the result:



Eventually I decided they were interesting enough to get my local camera shop to scan them for me (£3 a negative, ouch!), and I think I showed one here on my "one from each" thread. You'd have to crane your head to see it, but the quick and dirty one isn't THAT much worse!



I've a feeling that was a Dell printer-scanner, so nothing at all fancy!
 
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