It looks like a light box Walt...
Chris
On 19 Apr 2004, at 17:01, Walt Wayman wrote:
> This may be of interest to those of you who, like me, are mainly slide
> shooters. I have thousands of slides stored 20 to the page in dozens
> of binders of about 40 pages each. I am not a cataloger or record
> keeper, so more often than not finding a particular slide is a search
> and rescue mission. Heretofore, it's either been a matter of pulling
> out the pages, which slip and slide around on one another like greased
> pigs in a vat of Jello, plopping them on the light box, then wrestling
> the squirming things back into the binders. Or, worse yet, when too
> lazy for this procedure, getting a crick in the neck by tilting my
> head sideways while trying to hold the pages in the binder so that
> light from a window or desk lamp might allow me to spot my quarry.
> This nearly never works and causes my disposition to deteriorate
> rapidly.
>
> Then a few weeks ago I discovered the Hakuba Lightviewer 5700 Pro.
> Pardon me if everybody here knows about these things and has one, but
> on the off chance there's someone else behind the times, I will
> continue. This little light box is 9.5 in. x 6 in. x 0.75 in., with a
> 7 in. x 5 in. viewing area. It runs two hours on batteries (4 AAs)
> and comes with an AC adapter. It weighs 1.1 lbs. with batteries
> installed. Now when searching for a particular slide, it's simply a
> matter of plopping the binder on the desktop or in the lap, slipping
> the viewer behind the first page, sliding it from top to bottom while
> perusing the slides, then turning the page and repeating the process.
>
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