I'm seeing occasional message posting attempts failing because they are
misaddressed.
The address to send to for distribution to this list is
filmscanners@halftone.co.uk *NOT* filmscanners_owner
If you send to any other address it will not work, so please re-send.
*AND*
If you send from any
http://www.photozone.de/8Reviews/reviews/elitecoolscan.htm
is the first result on googling for nikon 5000 ed minolta vs scan
dual... you can try other links there as well.
I was comparing these two scanners too, and finally settled on Nikon.
They are both very good quality scanners. As the
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.
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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
I am going to assume that you are using my post to piggy-back on and are
not attempting to address the comments in my post with your remark.
Whether of not one should scan slides in cardboard mounts, no amount of
autofocusing is ever going to bring the center and the edges into
optimal focus if
I am addressing your comments, directly...
My point being that if you took the time to remount your slides for
scanning you'd get much better results from either scanner.
No scanner is going to do it's best with curved film.
What are you trying to achieve, the best scan with the equipment you
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.
No, I don't think I said
My point being that if you took the time to remount your
slides for scanning you'd get much better results from either scanner.
True, but the curvature of film is not always due to the mounting but
can be due to a number of other factors.
No scanner is going to do it's best with curved film.
