> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > How many slides are you talking about?. Tens, hundreds or a > thousand?. > > Another alternative would be to "copy" them using the old > camera-bellows-slide holder system. Then scan the copies. > > This however would introduce another source of > error/distortion/grain > etc of the image. Unless of course you have enough slides and > you seem to > be in the buying mood, you could use it as the excuse to buy a > decent digital > camera so you could "digitize" the damaged slides in one step using the > bellows etc. > > I have not tried it, but imagine the DOF of a stopped down regular > 50mm lens would be significantly better than of a film scanner.
I have maybe a thousand slides that survived the fire. Of those, maybe a third are unusually warped. And of those, I could probably forego scanning some of them, but I'd like most of them. So I'm talking maybe 200-300 difficult slides. Using a digicam has its appeal, and I already have a decent one (Canon 10D), but it's a 6MP Bayer pattern, whereas the LS-2000 is about 10MP true RGB with IR channel. Also, a digicam won't capture as much shadow detail as a scanner in multi-sampling mode--I routinely run the LS-2000 at 4x, and go to 16x for the really hard slides. Another possibility would simply be to pay someone else to scan the difficult slides on high-end equipment, and do the much larger number of clean slides myself. But I don't know how to find someone who can do it in my area (L.A.). -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
