Quick question about Dwaynes and Fromex returned negatives

<p>When they return negatives, how many are in each cut strip? It's probably 4, 5, 0r 6.</p>

<p>It would be really great if the number somehow matched the film carrier for my scanner.</p>

<p>Why not call them directly and ask if they will cut it to your needs?</p>

<p>If I ever want a specific number, I ask for film to be returned uncut. Most will do that. Then cut it yourself.</p>

<p>I now have a scanner that can scan whole rolls, so I scan, then cut.</p>

<p>The 'default' for Dwayne's seems to be 4-negative strip inserted into a folding soft plastic holder.<br>

I generally ask for the film to be uncut, however, and cut it myself to length to fit the scanner holder.</p><div></div>

If you're scanning with a flat bed scanner, have it cut

by the processor and inserted in plastic sleeves. That

way the film will be flat. Rolled film is hugely difficult

to get flat in the scanner holder.

<p>On the other hand, if you remove the uncut film from the container immediately on receipt, cut it right away, keep in a plastic sleeve and put it under a couple of books, the curl won't have enough time to set-in.<br /> It can be major slow-down* to do, for example, just 4(x2) images in a run, instead of the 6(x2) image strip of the Nikon Coolscan 9000.<br>

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*None of the hi-res scanners I have used have ever been exactly "speedy" so it saves a lot of time to do as many at once as possible. Unless you are doing very few scans, I would advise never getting a scanner where you have to feed each image manually.</p><div></div>

<p>Thanks, all. Fromex did respond very quickly to my email. Their default is uncut, but they will cut to my specification. No response from Dwaynes. However, I have the info here.</p>