[Leica] Re: Nikon 5000ED

[firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)]

Nothing like learning on the job. I'm still hoping to get tips for the 
Scanner. Photo techniques arrived yesterday with and article on 
advanced scanning: I thought "you little bewdy" and then scanned the 
article --- seemed a watered down version of the advertising hype used 
by Nikon :-(

So I will list tip/problems I'm facing and solutions I've found should 
anyone be interested.

Scanning Kodachrome slides with the SF-210 feeder: occasionally, the 
feeding slider is a bit to thick and actually catches on the window 
mount of the 2nd in line slide, jamming the loading process. I found 
that the mount has a slight indentation and that if I reversed the 
mount it did not catch: of course now the emulsion side is wrong and 
the image has to be reversed.

Scanning plastic Kodachrome mounts (Australian at least) with the 
SF-210 feeder: when the plastic feeder begins to push the slide, it 
"bucks" up like a horse and the mount catches on the plastic bar half 
way in. On examining the slide mounts, I found there was a difference 
in the ends, one is smooth and the other has a slight ridge where the 
mount has been sealed closed. The ridge seems to have caused the 
bucking because when I turned the slides over (keeping the emulsion 
side the same) they slide in fine.

Scanning Kodachrome slides at high quality (120meg file) the scanner 
just seems to give up for no apparent reason after between 6 and 12 
slides: HELP. Any suggestions. Occasionally it just seems to freeze in 
mid scan and then shut down with no jam or physical problem. No 
solution yet. Can anyone suggest how I might allocate more memory to 
the process. My other thought it that I'm running it through a USB hub 
and the manual does say not to: I'll try that and get back on this 
issue later.

Happy filing ;-)

Alastair