<p>Hello everyone. I'm brand new both to this site and film scanning. Needless to say, any information is much appreciated.</p> <p>I am endeavoring to archive a large amount of family photos. I didn't want to just send away the material and have a service digitize them, so I am tackling the task myself - using film negatives wherever possible. I purchased an Epson v550. While we have many film negatives which are likely 35mm strips, i have a number of B&W negatives circa 1940 which are of a size I do not recognize. Part of the downside of being part of a younger generation, I suppose!</p> <p>The negatives are of one image only, and are roughly 2 3/4" on the short end (width?) and, at least in the example I'm discussing, just barely over 4 1/4" on the long end. I don't know if these were in rolls at some time, or anything about them. by the width, it seems like that might be 70mm?</p> <p>There is no printing on the negative, and the only 'extra' space on it is about 1/8" on both long sides. From what I've been able to find online, they seem to be medium format, but i guess that's just a blanket description for several sizes?</p> <p>I'm looking for any suggestions on how best to handle the negatives (some have fingerprints directly on the middle of them, etc. from other folks sorting through them over the years, apparently) for scanning purposes?</p> <p>The last part I'm hoping for some input regarding is using the V550 to scan these negatives. I'm not sure, but at first attempt, they don't seem to fit in the plastic holders which came with the scanner. I've read a bit about ANR glass and other items from places like betterscanning.com. Hoping i don't need to purchase anything else, but i do need to figure out a way to scan these correctly without screwing up focus due to height on the glass, etc. Also trying to figure out how to center them so their alignment is not off - as much as is possible - before any post-scan processing I might do in Photoshop.<br> <br />Thanks so much for your insights!<br> Charlie</p>
