Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/12

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Subject: [Leica] nikon to discontinue most film cameras
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Thu Jan 12 08:53:06 2006
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What I don't understand is this:

You can't stick in a roll of film with 6 frames in the LS-5000 using
the original configuration and expect it to find the first frame.

Why is it so much easier when there are 36 frames?

Daniel

On 1/12/06, Richard <richard-lists@imagecraft.com> wrote:
> I have been using one for ~5 years now. Stick the film in, click scan, and
> go away for 1 1/2 hours. What can be simpler than that? It cost quite a bit
> of money though for pretty much a plastic shell with not much to it. I
> think I paid ~$350. Sometimes the scanning software loses frame, but most
> of the time, either NS or Vuescan does a good job if the 1 st frame preview
> looks good.
>
> At 08:37 AM 1/12/2006, Daniel Ridings wrote:
>
> >I've always wondered how that would work. The Nikon LS-5000 is not
> >very good at finding frames. I almost always have to fiddle with the
> >pre-scan. Once you set it for the first one on a roll, does it manage
> >to find the rest fairly well?
> >
> >Daniel
> >
> >On 1/12/06, Adam Bridge <abridge@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Nikon has a roll-film adaptor for their 4000/5000 series of scanners
> > > and it works wonderfully!
> > >
> > > I think Tina uses one also.
> > >
> > > Adam
>
> // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please
> use richard at imagecraft.com)
>
>
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