This has happened before to my unit...
first time, not knowing, sent it back to polaroid
second time, not wanting to go through the delivery/time cycle, stopped
the recycling scanner and blew compressed air into the channel... did it
a few times and restarted the scanner, problem solved...
Dears, after many months of 0 activity on digital photography ... I have
started again and hence here I am to bother you all ... I beg your pardon,
but I need your valuable help and advices.
I have found some negatives (B/W) on glass 4'x6' (inches) and I am trying to
scan them using a flatbed HP
Jolene wrote:
I have been quietly reading the list for a couple of weeks now, as
I am preparing to buy my very first filmscanner. Here is my
question. I have a big ol' box of negatives (I think they are 16mm
in size) from family pictures. I would really like a scanner that is
capable of
NO - NO - NO - not the chemical products for the windows. You might check
the archives as cleaning film has been discussed here recently, but the
suggestions essentially were:
Photo cleaning fluid - Kodak's was found to be not particularly effective
but a product called PEC-12 was. If you
You may be able to get slidemounts in the appropriate size for
individual size. I used to be able to get paper mounts in every
imaginable size from Spirotone in NY, which no longer exists in any form
I believe. There may be another source. It is also possible that Wess
makes an appropriately
Ethol sells an anti-static film cleaner. I use it on my negatives and get
good results. I'm not sure how effective it would be with glass negatives,
but it is gentle and evaporates cleanly. For scratches or water residue
stains/deposits, I've found Edwal's No Scratch to be effective. It works
I have during this last week done some tests regarding the Nikon
CoolScan 4000 ED. and software NikonScan 3.0 beta and alfa.
Resolution test : Leitz test slide. Outstanding resolution, visible
grain in the test slide.
I have never seen this before. I have done the same test with Polaroid
35,
Frank,
That's what I am talking about. Maybe David will tell us what that does.
Stan
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Is the glass element the flat, square cruddy looking thing about four inches
inside the slot on the bottom, below two metal cutouts? What is it's
purpose? What I'm looking has so much dust on it that it
Hi!
The Vuescan homepage says that you need a driver called ASPI and an address
to download it from. Have you tried it?!
Regards
Erik
On Saturday 17 March 2001 20:14, you wrote:
I had my Canon 2710 working on Windows 2000 at an earlier date with much
screwing around with it but after
Start with the distilled water and cotton buds, cleaning very gently. If the
emulsion is flaking in any way, there isn't much you can do about it.
Avoid the chemicals if at all possible.
I'll try and check for more with our Museum Conservator on Monday or Tuesday
for more.
Tim A
It works best if you fabricate a mask from opaque paper. The attached URL is
a design for scanning 8x11mm minox transparincies.
http://www.bayarea.net/~ramarren/photostuff/scanmask/scan-mask.html
Bob Wright
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Thanks Tim and all the other who gave suggestions and advices.
Sincerely.
Ezio
www.lucenti.com e-photography site
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From: "Tim Atherton" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 12:30 AM
Subject: RE: filmscanners: To clean/wash old
Sam asked:
Does anyone have this running on Windows 2000?
Yes, it is working here, but I agree the installation is quirky. Here is what worked
for me.
I used the page of instructions on the Australian Canon website. It then all worked,
except for the twain recognition of the scanner from
Ezio: I will also be checking with some museum types I know... meanwhile my
suggestion is to NOT CLEAN the negs... leave them alone for now... if you have a
darkroom, make paper contact prints from them and work with those until you
get more info on how to deal with your glass plates... you
Ezio: I just did a little checking on Google the search engine (www.google.com)
under the term "glass plate photographic preservation". I got a lot of
references... this is one of them that sums up what most of the other say in
regard to storage and
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