Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Are there ANY high quality scanners out there under $2K that have a good batch loader for slides? Andy > Has anybody had any experience with the continuous film scanner > attachment for the Nikon 4000ED? I thought I was going to be smart and > save money with the Kodak 3600 ($800 at B&H plus 110 rolls of film = > $600, net cost of $200) to get the continuous scanning feature for a > full roll. What a mistake. The software/firmware/hardware is so kludgy > that even Ed Hammrick (Vuescan) doesn't support the machine. I just may > eat the $200 loss and go for the Nikon version if anyone has had > experience. > > I have the batch slide attachment and found that I can be fairly > successful if I baby-sit it and control the feed with my finger tip > while I read the LUG/LEG email. > > >Just remember that the batch scanning on this thing works on uncut > > >rolls of film; for mounted slides you need the Coolscan 2000 or 4000 > > >with their often flaky and expensive SF-200 batch attachment. > > > > > > > > >Hi Henning, > > > > > >I have had my LS4000 up and running for a week or so and I had been > > >considering the SF-200 Slide attachment. What's the story on this > > >unit? > > > > > >For $500.00 US it should work perfectly. > > > > > >Regards, > > > > > >Greg > > > > It jams way too easily. With cardboard mounted slides, the friction > > between two slides is sometimes too much, and it tries to suck in two > > slides at once at times. With plastic mounted slides, sometimes the > > little extra bits of plastic that all molded pieces come with catch > > on other slides, or on parts of the feeder and cause jamming. If I > > load 40 or so slides, I can now get it to do the whole thing about > > 60% of the time. At the beginning, I had trouble gettting the feeder > > to do more than 10 before jamming. The whole design isn't that great. > > > > -- > > * Henning J. Wulff > > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > > /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com > > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see > > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-> users/unsub.html > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html