>On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Chris Smolinski wrote:
>>  I've found a few projects on the web for doing this, but the method
>>  seems to involve keeping the existing flatbed scanner setup, and
>>  stepping the film through in 11 (or so) inch steps. I'd rather
>>  continuously scan it down the entire length of the film.
>
>My information may be out of date these days, but all the flatbed scanners
>I have worked with in the past used stepper motors, and even though they
>could scan a page quickly, they were still doing a step-scan process where
>the scanner head was still as it scaned and it would then step forward
>again.  Just very fast.
>
>You should always be able to slow down the speed of the film to get a
>non-blurry image though.  Depends on how new and fast the scanner is.

Normal scanner operation is to scan one page. What I'd like to do is 
figure out how to put a scanner into some sort of "continuous" mode, 
where it scans forever, streaming data out. Then I could advance the 
film in front of the array at a suitable rate. I wonder if some 
scanners have a diagnostics mode, where you can get them to scan 
continuously?

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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
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