Scanning large negs

A friend at a historical society asked me about the best way to scan
large antique negatives, some of which are between glass. He will want
prints from them. Commercial service I assume. Any recommendations. Or
any workarounds with conventional scanners???? Thanks.

How large is large?

"Ron G" <rgood@netzero.com> wrote in message
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> A friend at a historical society asked me about the best way to scan
> large antique negatives, some of which are between glass. He will want
> prints from them. Commercial service I assume. Any recommendations. Or
> any workarounds with conventional scanners???? Thanks.
>

He wasn't specific, but I assume at least 6"x6".

Alan Smithee wrote:
> How large is large?
>
> "Ron G" <rgood@netzero.com> wrote in message
> news:10ke6p3mj0jeicd@corp.supernews.com...
>
>>A friend at a historical society asked me about the best way to scan
>>large antique negatives, some of which are between glass. He will want
>>prints from them. Commercial service I assume. Any recommendations. Or
>>any workarounds with conventional scanners???? Thanks.
>>
>
>
>

How large is actually a fairly critical question. For
example, the
Epson Perfection 4870 (approximately $450, or $600 with the
PRO software pack) will do a pretty good job on negatives
and transparencies up to roughly 5 3/4" x 9" ... but your
6" x 6" size, or the common photographic size of 8" x 10",
would require obtaining the more expensive Epson Expression
series scanners.

At any rate, a suitable scanner can be obtained for anywhere
from $200 to $2,500 from vendors such as Epson, Microteck
and so forth.

Epson
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/...egory.jsp?BV_Us
eBVCookie=yes&oid=-8172

Microtech
http://www.microtekusa.com/

"Ron G" asked:
"...
any workarounds with conventional scanners
...."

I would probably look at the Epson Perfection 4870 PRO and
the Microtek ArtixScan 2500f as two relatively high-end (yet
still affordable) desktop scanners that will probably handle
the job quite well.