A Minolta Dimage Dual film/slide scanner costs $429. It is worth
every penny.
Mitch
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Steve Goss wrote:
> HI y'all-
>
> A couple of days ago someone mentioned trying to project slides onto a
> scanner. Well, I tried it last night and was not very successful.
> My son needed a picture of the whole family that he could take to Mother's Day
> out and use in a craft project. We had one picture taken this summer at the
> garden of the gods in Colorado, (OM2n on a tripod [OM content]) but it was a
> slide, and all I have is a flat bed scanner. So...
> First, I put the scanner on it's side with the lid open, and used my Kodak
> Carousel projector to project an image onto the glass. I wasn't sure if I had
> the focus correct, but figured that I could adjust it with some preview
> scans.
> First off, the the slide image was backwards (because the scanner is looking a
> different direction). Second, the image was very dim, except in a straight
> line from the projector to the scanner, where there was a large white blob. I
> tried projecting at an angle, but that did not help much.
> Next, I tried disconnecting the lamp. All I got was an error message on the
> screen saying that the lamp was disconnected or burned out.
> Next, I tried with the lamp on, and without the glass. At first, I got still
> more error messages, until I put a piece of paper over the scan head at the
> very beginning of the run. It seems that the first thing a scanner does is
> calibrate itself, and mine, a Microtek Scanmaker v310 calibrates itself by
> pulling the scan head back beyond the glass and scanning the inside of the
> case. With the piece of paper to fool the calibration, still nothing.
> Finally, I put the scanner back together, laid the slides on the glass, and
> lit
> them with the light from the projector. I removed the projector lens, and
> held
> the projector about a foot above the slide. Varying the position and angle of
> the projector made some difference in the quality of the scan. It ranged from
> terrible, to awfull, to not bad except for the way overexposed parts.
> I ended up taking the best of the sad bunch and spending a lot of time with
> Micrographix Photo Magic to make it semi-presentable. Then I printed it on my
> old HP color deskjet, which did not help the quality of the picture in any
> way.
>
> So, how much do photo CD's cost?
>
> Steve Goss, Dallas TX
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