Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- --On Monday, March 31, 2003 9:38 PM -0500 Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net> wrote: > At 06:18 PM 3/31/2003 -0800, you wrote: >> . i've read poor reviews of >> the nikon also saying that it has problems focusing.-daniel > > > This seems to be another case of getting a good machine or not. We've > debated this on other lists and some people have perfect Nikon scanners > that give accurate focusing across the plane of flat film. I'm always > careful to mount my slides very flat and with the Nikon scanner, you can > prefocus on any part of the film and compare it to any other part. My > focus points are always within .001 or .002 from corner to corner and > center. Others have widely varying points. I can't explain this. My > Epson printers are also perfect and have never had a clog. It may have > something to do with the high humidity in South Carolina or maybe I just > talk sweet to my machines! Tina, I actually think both things can be true, it depends on which feeder you are using. I shoot color negative and feed negative strips into whatever the attachment is called that you feed negative strips into. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to see that that carrier probably doesn't hold a negative as flat as the one where you feed an individual mounted slide. Rolfe - -- Rolfe Tessem rolfe@ldp.com Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html