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Subject: [OM] Re: Handy-dandy gadget!
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 18:51:33 +0100
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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C M I Barker
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