John, It is not an impossible task; but I think due to the thickness of the lantern slides, you will need to use a flatbed with a transparency adapter. The key question will be how big the intended enlargements and prints are desired, which will indirectly impact on the amount of optical dpi that will be needed. Typically, I think that 1200 optical dpi should be sufficient with interpolation used sparingly when needed if large enlargements are desired or if large amounts of cropping is used. Given what I assume to be the general quality of those types of slides, I do not think they would suffer from limited interpolation. The Agfa T2500 would be nice; but it might be overkill in terms of price and absolute requirements.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Prokos Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 9:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Scanning old Lantern Slides Laurie, Thanks for your input. Some of these problems do exist. But there is always Photoshop to help correct these issues. In fact some of the lantern slides are cracked, so this will definitely be a Photoshop task. Regards, John on 02/05/02 5:24 PM, Laurie Solomon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the case of lantern slides, it is not how big are they as much as how > thick are they and how good is the emulsion that is painted on the glass in > an unprotected manner. Remember were are actually talking about small glass > plate positives here sort of like the old glass plate black and white > negatives. These may also be some issues with respect to scanning through > glass in terms of light dispersion and refraction as well as the capturing > of any flaws and faults in the glass of the lantern slide itself. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 4:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Scanning old Lantern Slides > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
