Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/14

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Subject: [Leica] Scanners
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Wed Sep 14 00:39:28 2005
References: <4599127.1126645813771.JavaMail.root@elwamui-royal.atl.sa.earthlink.net> <a2f8f447050914000951987125@mail.gmail.com> <6.1.0.6.2.20050914003009.05575da0@192.168.100.42> <a2f8f4470509140030538b81d0@mail.gmail.com> <005d01c5b8fe$78662050$6918c23e@symke>

Damn, Simon. I never thought of reading the manual. (blush).

Daniel

On 9/14/05, animal <s.jessurun95@chello.nl> wrote:
> I recall that there is a chapter in the manual describing how much warp the
> scanner can take.
> best,simon jessurun
> 
> >I have the LS-5000. Terrible problems. I thought the film-strip would
> > solve my problems, but I'm not even 100% sure it even helped. Probably
> > quality control.
> >
> > The edges are so fuzzy that it would destroy a print with anything
> > significant there.
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> > On 9/14/05, Richard <richard-lists@imagecraft.com> wrote:
> >> Daniel, I have to respectful disagree. I have scanned several hundreds 
> >> of
> >> rolls of slides on the LS-4000 and I have never really noticed a DOF
> >> focusing problem.
> >>
> >> At 12:09 AM 9/14/2005, Daniel Ridings wrote:
> >>
> >> >Doug,
> >> >
> >> >It doesn't have to be a slide, a negative put in as a strip of 6 or
> >> >put in a film-strip holder (that I though would hold them flatter)
> >> >displays the same behaviour. It can be frustrating.
> >> >
> >> >Daniel
> >> >
> >> >On 9/13/05, Douglas Herr <telyt@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >> > > IIRC the Nikon scanners have a shallow DOF so if the slide isn't 
> >> > > flat
> >> > the scan will only be partially in focus.  Many older Kodachromes 
> >> > bulge
> >> > in the cardboard mount making the problem apparent.  The scans I've
> >> > seen
> >> > from bulged slides are essentially unusable.
> >>
> >> // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, 
> >> please
> >> use richard at imagecraft.com)
> >>
> >>
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In reply to: Message from telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr) ([Leica] Scanners)
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Message from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] Scanners)
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