P3D Scanners

[Fred Peters <fpeters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

George said....
 
What should I look for? For my purpose it appears that convenience is
above resolution. Ideally, it would be nice if the scanner will accept an
Albion or RBT mounted stereo pair. Single chips would be OK too.

There was a review of the HP Photosmart(?) scanner some time ago. I also
see a scanner by Olympus for a bit less. Has anyone tried these scanners
for scanning stereo slides? Any help would be appreciated!

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Scanners are great, but you can make an expensive mistake.
I own an HP IIcx and a Microtek 35t, both have their strong
and weak points. 400 dpi is plenty of resolution for scanning
and printing images that are the same size (scan a photo or
slide and keep it the same size or smaller). If you want to
scan a slide at 200 dpi and blow it up, then you must scan 
at 400 dpi to double the size. My slide scanner can scan at
1800 dpi, which gives you the ability to blow up a slide to
8 X 10. Flatbed scanners generally are not good for slides.
To scan a realist slide, I scan both sides, crop, then send
them to my Fargo printer to make stereoviews of reasonable
quality, or convert to jpg and gif for internet use.
If you have questions about specific techniques,I'd be glad
to help.

Fred

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E-mail: Fred Peters <fpeters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 12/03/97
Time: 14:38:05
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