The crop problem
Posted on June 30, 2007
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Both my older Canon Lide scanner and newer MPC530 multifunction device make relatively decent-quality scans, but the biggest crop area I can get is 8.5×14 inches - which results in losing image area as seen abbove. The original has black space on both sides of the light circle, and more room top and bottom. It’s a square print from a Hasselbald 2.5×2.5 cm negative (Tri-X pan) …
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[…] One of the things on my ‘new life to-do list’ is to deal with my old prints and transparencies, which have been eating up a huge space in the garage these last 17 (!) years or so. Most of the prints are 11×14 inches - it was the standard print size used at the L.A. Herald Examiner where I worked for 13 years - so standard, relatively inexpensive 8.5×11 or 8.5×14 scanners don’t really do the job. […]