About difficulties for the Epson scanner to locate single frames: I found that it is improtant to make sure there's enough space in front of the first frame (the ones at the back end of the scanner table) - a couple milimeters. I have made a habit out of tapping the film tray at the front end - causing the film strip to slide a little backwards - before laying the tray on the scanner. All the best Jens
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Keith Whaley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 26. maj 2004 02:42 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: Take a wild guess Thanks, I'll keep all that in mind when I start using my Epson Perfection 3170... keith whaley Brian Walters wrote: > Keith > > As I said, I didn't really buy it for its film scanning capabilities and I didn't > expect it to be able to compete with dedicated film scanners. However, I thought > it might be able to do a better job than it can - perhaps unrealistic > expectations but also I probably haven't spent enough time with it working out > how to get the best out of it. > > The main problem I have is that the scanner often cannot "find" the image it's > trying to scan so that it will end up scanning only part of the image. This > seems to mainly occur with transparencies that have a dark background. Taking > the slide out of its mount and using the film holder rather than the slide holder > sometimes helps. Perhaps the system expects a distinct change in light > transmissibility so that it can properly identify the transparency/mount boundary. > > It seems to do a better job of scanning negatives than transparencies. > Unfortunately, most of my images are the latter but my son has used it quite a > bit to scan negs and is reasonably happy with the results. > > > > Brian > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Brian Walters > Australian Plants Societies > http://farrer.csu.edu.au/ASGAP/ > > On Tue, 25 May 2004 17:08 , Keith Whaley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: > > >>Brian Walters wrote: >> >> >>>Jens >>> >>>Thanks for the feedback - I've already learned my lesson about using a flat bed >>>scanner for 35mm negs and slides. >> >>Which is? >> >>keith whaley > > > > > > > > ---- Msg sent via Spymac Mail - http://www.spymac.com > > >
