4x4 scanner?

[Billy Eyelash]

I have a large number of 4X4 slides and negatives. Whilst they fit in a normal slide mount, all the film scanners I have found seem to be limited to scanning only the width of a 35mm negative.

Is anyone aware of a film scanner which will handle these?

[tog]

Do you mean Superslide format, shot on 127 film I think? If so you'll need a film scanner that takes 120 film, which I expect are few and far between these days. 35mm film scanners will only scan up to 24mmx36mm.

Alternatively, with a lightbox and a macro lens you can rephotograph them in camera and digitise that way. I have not done it, but have read of people getting very good results. The setting up I imagine is fiddly, but once done you should be able to crack through them faster than a scanner.

[Simpo Two]

tog said:

Alternatively, with a lightbox and a macro lens you can rephotograph them in camera and digitise that way. I have not done it, but have read of people getting very good results. The setting up I imagine is fiddly, but once done you should be able to crack through them faster than a scanner.

I've done this with colour slides. As you say it's much faster than scanning, you just have to crop the edges afterwards to lose bits of the mount.

I did try a scanner once, albeit one of the £50 ones, and it vignetted badly so no use.