HP used to sell those little 'tents' for their flatbeds. I believe they
even have a patent on it. The problem is that light from below is still
shining on the face of the slide, reducing contrast and sometimes
causing reflections from the non-flat shape of mounted slides. I had a
friend who tried this way out and eventually gave it up. He did say that
a flat black mask around the image helped a bit, but basically the
scanned images were never very good. He e-mailed me some and I agreed,
ok for casual web images, but nothing better. YMMV.
I also looked at the link about using florescent flashlights and decided
I could earn enough to buy a cheap flatbed with transparency adapter
built in in less time and effort that it looked like it would take to
make that work..
Moose
Daniel J. Mitchell wrote:
That said, the following page has a method to get around this problem; I've
not tried it myself, but it looks plausible:
http://www.abstractconcreteworks.com/essays/scanning/Backlighter.html
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