[geeks] What has replaced Kodak PhotoCD Pro?

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Fri Jul 8 09:46:50 CDT 2005


Fri, 08 Jul 2005 @ 07:42 +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson said:

> Since this is the "geeks" list, I'll explain why. A color negative or slide
> has layers of dye to make up the colors. Red, green and blue, which some
> Japanese slide film having an extra color layer. It is transparent to
> near infrared light. Dust and dirt are not as well as black and white film.

Last sentence unparsable.

> I purchased a cheap HP flat bed scanner with a slide/negative adaptor
> built in. It did a nice job ax 1200x1200 dpi however the software did not
> have any settings for black and white negatives. I had to scan them as 
> slides and invert them in gimp. Too much effort and I gave up.

Did you try using Image Magick to invert in batches?


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