On Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 4:36:51 PM UTC-4, Andy Champ wrote:
I'm writing this in the hope it'll be useful to someone else, as I
finally have an answer!
Many years ago I had a camera that took Instamatic film, also known as
126. And I always took slides - unusual, because these were normally
used for snaps and prints only.
I've had terrible trouble finding a scanner, because the slides are
square. The mounts are 2 inches square, just like a 35mm - but the
actual image in the middle is about 26mm square, unlike 35mm slides
where it's about 34mm x 23mm. I've finally found a scanner which will
accept these and let me scan the whole thing, and not crop it to 23mm
one way or the other.
It's an Epson Perfection 1670 photo flatbed. Not anything obscure, and
not even very obsolete. I found that if I use "Home" or "Professional"
mode in their software _and_ _disable_ _thumbnail_ _preview_ it'll let
me apply completely manual cropping to the real edges of the image. And
I can now get my slides in.
Regards to all
Andy
Thank you very much for the input everyone!
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