Re: filmscanners: You have several hundred thousand transparencies to scan...

2001-04-11 Thread Jules
- Original Message - From: "Tony Sleep" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 10:18 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: You have several hundred thousand transparencies to scan... On Sat, 7 Apr 2001 06:40:38 -0500 Tom Scales ([EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: filmscanners: You have several hundred thousand transparencies to scan...

2001-04-08 Thread jimhayes
I hate to recomend the old Nikon LS3510AF to anybody, because it's really a terrible scanner from the dark days. But you can live with some reduced image quality. They used to cost about $5000, but you can get them in good shape for under $300 US now. Shows how worthless they are in these

Re: filmscanners: You have several hundred thousand transparencies to scan...

2001-04-08 Thread Tony Sleep
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001 06:40:38 -0500 Tom Scales ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Shoot, I've never seen one, but it seems like the Nikon 4000 ED with the optional slide feeder would be perfect. 36 shots at a time. Doubtful - it will be extremely slow compared to bulk scanning stations which process

Re: filmscanners: You have several hundred thousand transparencies to scan...

2001-04-08 Thread Tony Sleep
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001 12:55:37 +0400 Jeremy Nicholl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Fortunately, that rich uncle you never liked just croaked, and in a final moment of senility, he's left his entire ill-gotten gains to you, so money is no object. I suggest you look at pro-lab-type scanning

Re: filmscanners: You have several hundred thousand transparencies to scan...

2001-04-07 Thread Arthur Entlich
To heck with the slides and the scanner ;-) Thanks to dearly departed rich Uncle Charlie, I'm living in the Bahamas on my yacht, drinking coconut daiquiris, and I've hired someone else to scan the thousands of slides and figure out which scanner (s)he needs to do it. ;-) Art Jeremy Nicholl

Re: filmscanners: You have several hundred thousand transparencies to scan...

2001-04-07 Thread Tom Scales
Shoot, I've never seen one, but it seems like the Nikon 4000 ED with the optional slide feeder would be perfect. 36 shots at a time. Tom You want the best possible quality. However, time is also of the essence, so you are prepared to make minimal trade-offs in absolute quality in order to

Re: filmscanners: You have several hundred thousand transparencies to scan...

2001-04-07 Thread Derek Clarke
I reserve judgement on that one! Previous Nikon bulk slide feeders have been notorious for jamming. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Scales) wrote: Shoot, I've never seen one, but it seems like the Nikon 4000 ED with the optional slide feeder would be perfect. 36 shots at a time. Tom You want

RE: filmscanners: You have several hundred thousand transparencies to scan...

2001-04-07 Thread Laurie Solomon
with than scanners and scanning. :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Derek Clarke Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 8:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: You have several hundred thousand transparencies