[filmscanners] Re: Better DOF than Nikon?

2004-01-09 Thread Arthur Entlich
Well, that's hard to say without knowing the extent of the ripples and which model scanner you are considering. How much distance are we speaking about between the upper most and deepest ripple? Are we speaking of potato chip ripples or what? ;-) I have a Minolta Dimage Dual II and a Polaroid

[filmscanners] RE: Better DOF than Nikon?

2004-01-09 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
From: Arthur Entlich Well, that's hard to say without knowing the extent of the ripples and which model scanner you are considering. How much distance are we speaking about between the upper most and deepest ripple? Are we speaking of potato chip ripples or what? ;-) I have a Minolta

[filmscanners] Re: Better DOF than Nikon?

2004-01-09 Thread David J. Littleboy
Paul D. DeRocco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's hard to measure, but just eyeballing it, I'd say that I have easily a millimeter of warpage on some of them. And it's not necessarily a smooth domed curve from one edge to the other--some slides have ripples down one edge. (Although a simple curve