Scanner experiments

These are shots of increasingly deep subjects taken on an HP Scanjet 3800 scanner. The ones with a dark ground had the lid of the scanner open. There was a lot of dust removal to do in some cases, and the one from the microscope slide was just too dirty to clean up. Depth of field available - eg on the hellebore - surprised me.

The cassette came out slightly elongated top to bottom but was fairly easily reshaped in PSE using 'free transform'. B & W transform done in LR. The second hellebore - in colour & 'in gear' is a different variety and the colour looks about right on screen, holding the actual flower up to it. The final magnification is near enough 1:1.

-- JohnAshford - 24 Jan 2011