[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It would just gall me to spend that much on a scanner and still have to worry about > focus. (I cut my teeth on a Minolta Elite which had fixed focus and yet was sharp >over > the whole frame.) > > > > Al Bond A fixed focus scanner would likely be such because it has a very wide DOF. These scanners, in general, use a long optical path, allowing for a more DOF, but sometimes this design has other problems. As film scanners have heightened their resolution, ability to focus has been incorporated because even fixed focus has its limits which might have been less obvious when resolution wasn't as high. Art ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
