> From: Laurie Solomon > > "crooked" and "warp" slides? Paul what on earth are you doing > with criminal > and crazy slides? But in all seriousness, if they are as bad as > described, > I do not see the concern about loss of quality and newtonian rings that > might result from putting them in glass slide mounts since they probably > have already lost detail and information. I would think the idea would be > to try and salvage what one could from them. At any rate, I am going to > make an off handed recommendation, which may or may not e worth > the time and > effort or even be possible. Why not scan them in using a sheet of > anti-newtonian glass on top of them at the same size and at as high a > resolution as you can with a flatbed scanner; once you have them > digitalized > and even tweaked in Photoshop, print them out via film recorder > to new 35mm > slides or even 6x7cm transparencies, if you would like to archive > the saved > images on film as well as digitallly? I realize that the resolutions even > with upsampling will not be all that great as to allow large enlargements; > but I doubt that the quality of the originqals are not good > enough to serve > as a basis for getting something better at a large enlargemetn even if you > were drum scanning them.
The main thing I'm trying to figure out is if there's a way to digitize these slides without having to do a lot of individual work on each one. If I could find a scanner for $1500 or less that had a DOF of better than a millimeter, I'd jump at the opportunity, because it would save me having to remount each individual slide. If I can't find a scanner like that today, then I'll just leave them in a box until some time in the future when I can. Austin recommended the Leaf 45, which I could probably afford used. It may be the ticket, although it looks about the size of a small drill press. ;-) -- 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
