{"id":6602,"date":"2004-09-23T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-23T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2004\/09\/23\/flattening-negatives\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:32:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:32:46","slug":"flattening-negatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2004\/09\/23\/flattening-negatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Flattening Negatives?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Help! Could anyone who reads this who is familiar with photography stuff offer a suggestion? I&#8217;ve got some negatives I&#8217;m scanning, but despite being stored flat in sleeves for eight years or so, they seem to have a bit of a curl to them. Scanning them is producing a bit of distortion at the end of each negative, as can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/gallery\/alaska_1996\/alaska1996_036\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone know a good way to go about flattening negatives? I don&#8217;t have a tractor drive negative scanner I can feed them into, and the negatives slide into the carrier, not clip in. As such, it&#8217;s hard to fully keep them from curling. :(<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help! Could anyone who reads this who is familiar with photography stuff offer a suggestion? I&#8217;ve got some negatives I&#8217;m scanning, but despite being stored flat in sleeves for eight years or so, they seem to have a bit of a curl to them. Scanning them is producing a bit of distortion at the end\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15027,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6602\/revisions\/15027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}