Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/31
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At 6:15 PM +0100 12/31/01, Rob Appleby wrote:
>Funny to hear all the negative opinion about the SF-200 slide feeder, but I
>suspect most of it is due to the use of cardboard or very thin slide mounts.
>I've never had the slightest trouble with it myself and have scanned
>thousands of slides with it. I never have to babysit it or do anything more
>than just put more batches of slides into it as it exhausts the existing
>load. I've often done several hundred slides a day with it (long days!) -
>did two hundred just a couple of days back. I would highly recommend it.
>
>BTW, I hand mount all my slides, maybe that makes a difference in the type
>of mount?
>
>-- Rob
That's probably true. All the older Kodachrome I shot and scanned
were cardboard, and almost all present work is commercially mounted
in thin plastic, which also has a lot of little edges which can (and
do) catch.
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