Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi all, Has anybody had any experience with the continuous film scanner attachment for the Nikon 4000ED? I thought I was going to be smart and save money with the Kodak 3600 ($800 at B&H plus 110 rolls of film = $600, net cost of $200) to get the continuous scanning feature for a full roll. What a mistake. The software/firmware/hardware is so kludgy that even Ed Hammrick (Vuescan) doesn't support the machine. I just may eat the $200 loss and go for the Nikon version if anyone has had experience. I have the batch slide attachment and found that I can be fairly successful if I baby-sit it and control the feed with my finger tip while I read the LUG/LEG email. Bill in Denver > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of > Henning Wulff > Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 8:02 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Whither Kodak RFS 3600 > > > At 8:04 PM -0700 12/29/01, Greg J. Lorenzo wrote: > >Henning Wulff wrote: > > > >Just remember that the batch scanning on this thing works on uncut > >rolls of film; for mounted slides you need the Coolscan 2000 or 4000 > >with their often flaky and expensive SF-200 batch attachment. > > > > > >Hi Henning, > > > >I have had my LS4000 up and running for a week or so and I had been > >considering the SF-200 Slide attachment. What's the story on this > >unit? > > > >For $500.00 US it should work perfectly. > > > >Regards, > > > >Greg > > It jams way too easily. With cardboard mounted slides, the friction > between two slides is sometimes too much, and it tries to suck in two > slides at once at times. With plastic mounted slides, sometimes the > little extra bits of plastic that all molded pieces come with catch > on other slides, or on parts of the feeder and cause jamming. If I > load 40 or so slides, I can now get it to do the whole thing about > 60% of the time. At the beginning, I had trouble gettting the feeder > to do more than 10 before jamming. The whole design isn't that great. > > -- > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-> users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html