P3D Re: Scanning slides

[erker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Greg Erker)]

> Has anyone attempted to use one of the small slide viewing (fluorescent)
>lightboxes as a backlight for slide scanning purposes?  Seems to me it
>would work just as well as the device that came with my scanner.  Simply
>place slides down on scanner and lay backlight face down on top, then scan.
>The small lightboxes (which include diffuser plex) are readily available.

  I tried doing this using my big (12x16")
homemade light box, a medium format stereo
slide, and our Umax scanner here at work.

  It didn't work very well because there
was no way to turn off the lighting from
the scanner. Thus the slide was front lit
and back lit giving very poor contrast.

  I was able to get a viewable image out
of it by fiddling with the brightness
and contrast (in Photoshop) but it wasn't
even web page quality.

  I can email you the scan if you really
want to see it.

Greg E.

http://www.angelfire.com/ca/erker



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