38 HP PhotoSmart S20 Photo Scanner Basics
landscape
The orientation of a photograph or image that is wider than it is tall. (If it is
taller than it is wide, then it has a portrait orientation.)
mounted film
A negative or slide produced on a single frame of 35 mm print film or slide film, respectively,
and mounted in a standard 35 mm slide mount. You can use mounted film to create a scanned
image via the HP PhotoSmart S20 photo scanner. See also mounted negative and mounted slide.
mounted negative
A reversed photograph produced on a single frame of 35 mm print film and mounted in a
standard 35 mm slide mount. You can use a mounted negative to create a scanned image via
the HP PhotoSmart S20 photo scanner. See also mounted film and mounted slide.
mounted slide
A transparent photograph produced on a single frame of 35 mm slide film and mounted in a
standard 35 mm slide mount. You can use a mounted slide to create a scanned image via the
HP PhotoSmart S20 photo scanner. See also mounted film and mounted negative.
negative
A reversed photograph produced on a frame of 35 mm print film. You can use either a
mounted, single-frame negative or a multiple-frame, negative film strip (up to 5 frames at a
time) to create either one scanned image or several scanned images, respectively, via the
HP PhotoSmart S20 photo scanner. See also film strip, mounted film, mounted negative, and
negative strip.
negative strip
Reversed photographs produced on frames (a strip) of 35 mm print film. You can use a
negative strip (up to 5 frames at a time) to create scanned images via the HP PhotoSmart
S20 photo scanner. See also film strip, negative, and slide strip.
peripheral
An electronic device that is connected to a PC and performs a particular task or set of tasks,
such as printing, scanning, telephony, faxing, and so forth. The HP PhotoSmart S20 photo
scanner is one such peripheral.
photograph
The original mounted film, film strip, or print. (The electronic version of a photograph is called
an image.)
photographic format
The physical characteristics of a particular photograph. The HP PhotoSmart S20 photo scanner
can scan photographs of the following photographic formats: mounted film (35 mm mounted
slides or mounted negatives), film strips (35 mm negative strips or slide strips), and prints.