Since I have the Coolscan V ED, all this makes me glad I'm not shooting slides. I assume my scanner would have the same issue as the CS 5000. Someday I'll probably get some of my old slides out and scan them, though. And now I know that if I discover one that has edge softness I can't stand, to remount it and try to get it flatter. If that fails, I might rephotograph it with my slide copier, using very bright light, shooting with negative film, and then scan that.
Berry On 6/24/05 4:10 AM, "Arthur Entlich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh well, back to this again... > > The problem, as you stated, is depth of field. The answer has been cold > cathode lighting which can be rather bright. I had both a Minota Dimage > Scan II and I stilll have a SS4000 Polaroid, and with both, one needed a > rather badly warped film to have focusing problems. I never have needed > to use glass carriers or special mounts to get good sharp images across > the full surface. > > > The problem has been and continues to be use of LED lighting sources, > which do not have adequate light output to use stopped down apertures. > > Art > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> The truth is you shouldn't be trying to scan slides in their original >> cardboard mounts. They should be either remounted in glass or a high >> quality glassless mount (Wess or Gepe) that will hold the film flat. >> >> No amount of autofocusing is ever going to bring the center and the >> edges into optimal focus if the film isn't flat. >> >> If the lights on these scanners were brighter, the lens could use a >> smaller aperture which would help, but that's the realm of professional >> scanners. >> >> Mr. Bill >> >> >> Laurie Solomon wrote: >> >>> So Mike what you are saying is that unless the Nikon has a manual focus like >>> the Minolta does the problem is not correctable with the Nikon scanner but >>> is correctable with the Minolta; but both scanners have the problem under >>> the autofocus option. >> >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------- > Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe > filmscanners' > or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or > body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body