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[Brian Cluff]

What he was talking about is a special type of scanner or an accessory 
that you have to get with your scanner.
They are usually sold as transparency scanners if they can light the 
whole scanning area, or they are sold as transparency or negative 
scanners if they only back light a subset of the scanning area.

When you scan something in transparency mode the scanner has to turn off 
it's regular light that lights from under the document and turn on a 
light, that shines through the document/slide/transparenty...etc.etc..

I've tended to spend the extra money to get the transparency feature, 
and it's proved to be handy more than what I had originally thought, 
especially now with all the photos going digital.   I've even used my 
scanner's slide feature to pull details out of some old negatives that 
came from a mystery roll of film that had been sitting around for 
years.  Once the negatives were developed they appeared to be completely 
blank, so I wasn't even charged anything for them.  But when I ran them 
though my scanner and did some gimp magic I could see that there really 
was something there... turns out it wasn't anything I was interesting in 
keeping, but at least I know that for a fact now :)

Brian Cluff

On 01/31/2016 03:43 PM, Michael wrote:
> Xsane has a slide setting though..... hmmmmm..... well, we'll see when 
> I get a slide/negative to test it with.
>
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Mark Phillips 
> <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz <mailto:mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>> wrote:
>
>     Your scanner needs to have the ability to shine light through the
>     slide. Usually the top of the scanner (the part that opens) has a
>     screen you remove and there is a light source that shines the
>     light through the slide (sitting on the glass) into the sensors. I
>     don't think a reflective scan will work. A reflective scan is how
>     you normally use a scanner - light is shined onto the image and
>     the scanner receives the reflection off the photo, piece of paper,
>     etc.
>
>     Mark
>
>     On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Stephen Partington
>     <cryptworks at gmail.com <mailto:cryptworks at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Technically correct. But make sure you have a slide setting.
>
>         On Jan 31, 2016 3:10 PM, "Michael" <bmike1 at gmail.com
>         <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             my father has a BUNCH of slides. I just told him I could
>             modify them so he could take the pictures to
>             Walgreens/Walmart/CVS and print them. I think I just need
>             to scan them and then send the pictures to him. Gee... I
>             don't even need to apply a negative filter. Am I thinking
>             correctly?
>
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