Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dante: It might work for you, try mounting a couple. I mount my 6x6 slides in glass mounts but scan them beforehand in an old Kodak RFS 3570 scanner because there isn't a way to fit a mounted slide into the scanner. I do sandwich my 8x10 and 11x14 chromes between the glass on the flatbed scanner, (Epson 836XL) and a piece of plate glass to hold them very flat... in order to not have shadows and tiny OOF areas in the scans. In addition, there is another piece of glass in the transparency adapter itself. All that glass doesn't seem to change or affect the color or anything else that I've noticed. This method has worked out okay for me although I might be missing something. The resulting huge scans at 250-350 megabytes are crisp and sharp. My biggest problem is keeping that crispness and sharpness after I've reduced them in size for the web. Even an unsharp mask of 100-200 doesn't really do the trick. There are some of the scans near the bottom of this page: http://www.hemenway.com Good luck, I would guess that a dedicated 35mm scanner which accepts mounted slides will work better for you than a flatbed with tranny adapter. Jim Hemenway "dante@umich.edu" wrote: > > > I've never done it and would not do it. > > What the hell you can't take those glass slides mounts off ? > > If scanning is really important and you have to replace mounts go ahead. > > If not, keep mounts and forget scanning. > > How about if you are scanning undersize transparencies (18x24) from your > Leica Reporter, and there are simply no other mounts available? You can't > exactly stick a single frame, even of 24x36, in any scanner. > > I do print fairly regularly with AN glass, and I imagine that as long as the > glass is not on the sensor side, that it wouldn't a problem. I just want to > find out if anyone knows differently before I mount an entire roll of film. > > Cheers > ------------ > Dante Stella > http://www.dantestella.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