P3D Re: Slide Scanner Attachment for Flatbed Scanners

[John Ohrt <johrt@xxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan Gross wrote:
> 
> For those who already own a flatbed scanner, but would like to scan
> stereo slides, I just saw a very clever device being offered by HP.  The
> HP slide Adapter (PN C6260-67700) sells separately for $24.95 and
> consists of a small, hollow plastic pyramid that is placed over a slide
> on top of the flatbed of a scanner.  This adapter, which is wider than a
> 2X2 slide and has polished aluminum reflectors on the insides of the
> pyramid, passively reflects light back down through the slide for
> detection by the scanner as if it were opaque.  Although this limits the
> resolution of the scan to the optical resolution of the flatbed flatbed
> scanner used, the resolution may be adequate for the 2D imaging of
> slides for cataloging, etc.

I purposely repeated Jonathan's whole message ..... this sounds
great!!!!

If HP sells it, it has to be at least tolerable quality!

Even a mounted slide at 300 dpi works out to about 280 x 420 pixels of
image data.  Compare that to the 128x128 pixel stamps, which I find
quite adequate, there must be someway to make this work!!!

Thanks again for the note.

Now, has anybody got real data <grin>!!!!!!!



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