Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 6:15 PM +0100 12/31/01, Rob Appleby wrote: >Funny to hear all the negative opinion about the SF-200 slide feeder, but I >suspect most of it is due to the use of cardboard or very thin slide mounts. >I've never had the slightest trouble with it myself and have scanned >thousands of slides with it. I never have to babysit it or do anything more >than just put more batches of slides into it as it exhausts the existing >load. I've often done several hundred slides a day with it (long days!) - >did two hundred just a couple of days back. I would highly recommend it. > >BTW, I hand mount all my slides, maybe that makes a difference in the type >of mount? > >-- Rob That's probably true. All the older Kodachrome I shot and scanned were cardboard, and almost all present work is commercially mounted in thin plastic, which also has a lot of little edges which can (and do) catch. - -- * 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