Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/14

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Subject: [Leica] Scanners
From: richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)
Date: Wed Sep 14 00:23:23 2005
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Daniel, I have to respectful disagree. I have scanned several hundreds of 
rolls of slides on the LS-4000 and I have never really noticed a DOF 
focusing problem.

At 12:09 AM 9/14/2005, Daniel Ridings wrote:

>Doug,
>
>It doesn't have to be a slide, a negative put in as a strip of 6 or
>put in a film-strip holder (that I though would hold them flatter)
>displays the same behaviour. It can be frustrating.
>
>Daniel
>
>On 9/13/05, Douglas Herr <telyt@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > IIRC the Nikon scanners have a shallow DOF so if the slide isn't flat 
> the scan will only be partially in focus.  Many older Kodachromes bulge 
> in the cardboard mount making the problem apparent.  The scans I've seen 
> from bulged slides are essentially unusable.

// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please 
use richard at imagecraft.com)
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