Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] film scanners
From: "Juan J. Buhler" <jbuhler@pdi.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:35:31 -0700 (PDT)

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Don Dory wrote:

[an overall good review of the Kodak RFS 3600]

It looks like you're only scanning mounted slides. Have you used it
for strips of film?  I had one last year for a little while, and had
focusing problems when using the film strip feeder. I wasn't able to
get consistent focus across the image, ie the edges would be in focus
and the center blurry.

Not to mention the fact that trying to scan a 36-exposure roll implies
having the film bunch up at both ends of the scanner, since it has
nowhere to go. Unless you have a very long and clean table, you're
bound to have dust problems. I thought about solutions involving a
couple of rollers on either side, or maybe helium baloons tied to each
end of the film, but decided to just send the thing back to Adorama
and get a Polaroid SS4000 instead.

I thought the RFS3600 had severe design problems, and a pretty
immature software. The price difference to the Polaroid was well worth
it.

j

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