Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Tina, I'm sorry this is late, but I've been very busy and only have 800 lug mails to catch up on ;-). I think by the time I re-mount those sealed Kodachromes, I'd have undone the jams, so I'm not sure it would be an advantage. It will be E6 from here and all gepe mounts now though. Cheers and yes it helps, now all I need is a fail safe way of labelling storing finding etc ;-) On 08/01/2005, at 12:34 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > At 08:29 AM 1/7/2005 +1100, you wrote: > >> So I will list tip/problems I'm facing and solutions I've found >> should anyone be interested. > > Alastair: > > If you plan on batch scanning many slides, it is well worth the time > and effort to remount everything in Wess or Gepe mounts. I'm > gradually working my way through over 500,000 slides, remounting them > all. All new film goes directly into Gepe mounts. I've never had a > Gepe mount jam. > > The scanner does work better plugged directly into the USB port on the > computer. Be sure that wherever you have allocated to save the files > has plenty of room for all of the slides in the batch you are > scanning. > > Hope this helps. > > Tina > > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Alastair