Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
>>From: Arthur Entlich >> >>Paul sent me a couple of his "cooked" slides to test with a few scanner >>for him. I too thought these could by flattened by all the usual >>methods, such as those you state below, until I saw them! Warped is a >>kind word. These mounts are charcoal broiled, and the base layer of the >>film frames is literally melted. There is no method that would truly >>flatten these other than perhaps two well clamped down pieces of thick >>glass. >> >>They are painful to look at! > > > Heh, heh. I told you they were warped. Of course, I sent you some > particularly bad ones. I have slides that cover the gamut from really bad, > down to only slightly curved. > > Some of them had mounts that were so charred that I had to remount them. > They were sitting in metal Logan boxes, and the slides in the top box were > totally destroyed, as were the ones near the front and back of the other > boxes. > > So are they hopelessly out of focus on your equipment, or can you manage to > coax more sharpness out of them than an LS-2000? > > -- > > Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco > Paul mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > No they aren't a complete loss. In fact the Minolta Dual Dimage II did a stellar job with them. Also, the Minolta software allows for a click to choose point for focus, but even without that it did well. The weakness with the Minolta was the noise level in dark images, like the one underexposed slide you sent. The Polaroid SS4000+ coped less well in terms of focus, with the extremely warped area in one, but otherwise was not bad. It might be better if something like Vuescan was used with it, if it allows for selective or manual focus. The Polaroid did better much with the noise issues. The main problem is the lack of dICE in this case, because the images have considerable dirt and some have burned emulsion, which the dICE might be able to repair. My recommendation would probably be a Minolta Elite II with dICE and higher bit depth A/D converter. You may be able to pick one of these up reasonably as they are no longer made. It is limited to 2820 dpi, making for more grain aliasing, but I think it might otherwise be a good choice, and I expect you could score one for under $500 US (several on line dealers are selling them new for $499 US, and I bet you can do even better used (none on Ebay right now, however). Art ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
