Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- --=====================_452195==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed In addition to Pascals advice you may care to look at Vuescan which has more 'cleaning' options right through to 'scrub'. It is available at www.hamrick.com. Gerry At 08:12 13-05-01 -0600, you wrote: >I am about to scan a lot of my father's old slides with my new Nikon >LS-4000. (Obligatory Leica content: they were taken with a pre-war IIIc, >modified by Leica NY to do flash sync with a Leica NY (bulb) flash unit.) > >Many Kodachromes, Anscochromes and some Ektachrome mostly from the late '40s >and '50s. (The Kodachromes have held up quite well, the Anscochrome less >so.) > >What is the best way to approach cleaning these slides prior to scanning >them? I don't want to do anything that might damage these already old >precious slides. > >Thanks, > --Jim Dempsey-- > jjd@jjd.com > http://jjd.com/ - --=====================_452195==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> <font size=3>In addition to Pascals advice you may care to look at Vuescan which has more 'cleaning' options right through to 'scrub'. It is available at <a href="http://www.hamrick.com/" eudora="autourl">www.hamrick.com</a>.<br> <br> Gerry<br> <br> At 08:12 13-05-01 -0600, you wrote:<br> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>I am about to scan a lot of my father's old slides with my new Nikon<br> LS-4000. (Obligatory Leica content: they were taken with a pre-war IIIc,<br> modified by Leica NY to do flash sync with a Leica NY (bulb) flash unit.)<br> <br> Many Kodachromes, Anscochromes and some Ektachrome mostly from the late '40s<br> and '50s. (The Kodachromes have held up quite well, the Anscochrome less<br> so.)<br> <br> What is the best way to approach cleaning these slides prior to scanning<br> them? I don't want to do anything that might damage these already old<br> precious slides.<br> <br> Thanks,<br> - --Jim Dempsey--<br> jjd@jjd.com<br> <a href="http://jjd.com/" eudora="autourl">http://jjd.com/</a> </font></blockquote></html> - --=====================_452195==_.ALT--