14" bed scanner?

Does anybody know of a good scanner that can do legal size paper? I

have a lot of 14" negs and prints that I don't want to spend my time

stitching together. My goal, at the moment, is not to convert to

digital (rank heresy! <s>), but to get images on the web and in

digital format for newspaper and magazine gallery listings.

 

Thanks!

Assuming its not some funky dimension and your film is actually 11x14, a quick hop over to the B&H website would confirm that there are indeed flatbeds with transparency capability that will scan that for you.

 

I've used the Fuji Finescan 2750, which is roughly $9000 and probably overkill. I've also used the more modest Epson 1640XL which does a pretty good job with scanning larger films (I wouldn't use it for 35mm). It's about $2500. Another one I've used is one of the huge Microtek scanners. It is definately my least favorite of the three I mentioned. I liked it so little that I can't even remember what scanner it is. It's big, looks like a glowing coffin, and slow. Very slow. It was also so loud that when running you couldn't hear much else in the room. Microtek assured us that it was normal.

Actually, legal size would be fine. My negs are panoramas: 2.5"x 14". Those prices are way out my range. There's got to be 'legal' scanner available. No?

Well... there are not too many flatbeds that have a large enough transparency area. The Epson 2450 has a 4x9" tranny area. That means you'd have to stitch still. While there are a lot of 8.5x14 document scanners, none of them that I know of have a full length transparency adapter. The next step up for scanning transparencies is pretty much these tabloid scanners if you need to scan something 14" long in one go.

 

I hope for your sake that someone here has knowledge of a legal sized scanner with full length transparency handling, but I'm fairly sure there's no such thing in whatever price range you might be thinking of. In fact I think there may be no such thing, period, as the next step up is mostly the tabloid scanners.

I would be happy with a document scanner. I can make do with scanning contact prints of the 14" negs. As I said, these scans aren't destined for making high quality enlarged digital prints, just web stuff and repro prints for newspaper & magazine exhibition promos. So, what's anybody suggest for a legal document scanner? Or do they fallout of the realm of interest of anybody reading this topic?

My old UMAX Astra 1200S flatbed has an 8.5x14in transparency adapter. It's resolution is only 600dpi, but this is more than adequate for web work. I didn't respond earlier, because you can't fit 11x14in on that...