I've got lots of 35mm negatives and slides in the closet, going back 40 years, and it's time to organize and digitize them.
My new CanoScan 9000F Mark II is much, much faster than my old scanner, but scanning a 35mm negative at good quality still takes a long time. Fortunately I won't want to scan most of them.
Most of my negs are cut into four exposure strips, so I can scan eight shots at a time in preview mode, which takes only 12 seconds. Great!
But then I have to scan the images individually in order to save them, and even at 150 or 300 ppi it takes 90 seconds to scan all eight.
If I could save these previews directly I'd save lots of time, but the only way I can do it with the scanner software is to do a screen capture - with the Win7 snipping tool this is easy enough, but it's still primitive.
What I want is software that will take the preview, allow me to add a second, third, fourth page of previews, then let me save them either in one image per page or one image total. A contact sheet, just like in the darkroom days.
Is there such software out there?
To those who are scanning lots of film: what do you do?
Any advice much appreciated...
-js
