I bought a film negative scanner for about $100. I’m pretty happy with it except in one area: for some, but not all of my negatives, the scanner crops a hit from the top and bottom of the image.
If I hold the negatives up to the light, I can see that for the cropped negatives, the image on the negative strip itself is slightly larger than the images on the “non cropped” negatives, even though both negatives have the same width.
I don’t know anything about the specific type of negatives/film I’m working with, or even where I would look if that info is somehow printed on the negatives in tiny print or whatever.
I’m assuming that this economical scanner perhaps isn’t as capable as a pricey scanner that would capture the whole image on my “cropped negatives”, but I don’t know what design feature I should be looking for if I get another scanner so I can avoid this problem, as opposed to just ordering several and trying them til I find one that seems to work ok.
Does anyone have advice on what I should be looking for, or specific scanners to recommend, or if at my $100 price point, this is the best I can hope for. So far I am fully satisfied with everything except the cropping issue. Thanks!