Microfilm scanning - film scanners?

[Philip Pemberton]

Hi,
   I've been skimming the recent threads on microfiche scanning with some 
interest. Just out of curiosity, has anyone tried scanning 
microfilm/microfiche with a film scanner?

   Just interested, because VueScan (free trial from www.hamrick.com, $50 for 
the basic licence, $90 for the 'professional' licence) seems to have a setting 
for microfilm scanning. Unfortunately I don't have any microfilm to try it 
out, but my film scanner (a Minolta DiMAGE Scan Dual IV) only takes mounted 
35mm slides and 35mm strip film, so anything I put in would have to meet those 
size constraints...

   I could (in theory at least) bodge up a cardboard carrier for my flatbed 
scanner (an Epson Perfection 2400 Photo) and use that, but I don't rate its 
optical quality for transparency film very highly.

   I was just curious if anyone had considered trying it... I'd love to but 
like I said, I haven't got any film to test with.

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