magicsurfbus
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Is it possible to take images off old glass negatives? One of our friends in Spain has an old family farmhouse and in the attic piled up on the roof beams there are some glass negatives. Would be interesting to see what they are. Not sure whether they'd be bothered tho!
It's possible with a standard A4 flatbed scanner in a well-lit room provided you leave the lid up and are prepared to experiment with placing different amounts of plain paper sheets behind the glass plates to diffuse the light source .
Another option is to photograph them close up against a well-lit window and reverse the image using the negative image option in graphics software.