P3D Re: Scanning with the PhotoSmart

["KENNETH LUKER" <kluker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

asks David Motz <david.motz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> What type of mounts did you try?  Cardboard?  Would Albions or Emde mounts
> work?  Would glass mounted slides fit, or RBTs?  

and Dr. George A. Themelis:

> Perhaps you should tell us how are your slides mounted... I have an HP
> PhotoSmart scanner too.  The RBT mounts will not fit in the scanner.
> Trying to scan cardboard mounted slides presents a problem of alignment.
> Since there is play in the feeding slot, the slide can be sucked with
> small rotations.  Yes, some rotations can be reduced but alignment will
> always be an issue when you feed the same slide one end at a time.

Golly, I've only had the thing for a week--I haven't tried much!  :)
WHEN I get some time, I intend to see what happens when I use a 
single unmounted 5-perf chip with the PhotoSmart scanner.  I hope it 
doesn't take a detour from the insertion path and get lost down 
inside somewhere.  I haven't tried RBT mounts, and it sounds like I 
won't have to.  I may try to put some sort of slot-narrowing guide on 
the slide slot to prevent the skewing that George describes.  (The 
included software allows skew correction by rotation by one degree 
increments.  Or was that in Stereo Image Factory?  I don't 
remember.)  I use heat-seal cardboard mounts.  My Belplasca negs are 
cut into strips of four frames each, with two interleaved 7-perf  
adjacent views.  They feed easily into the negative slot.  The 
scanner comes with a clear plastic sandwich that might be useful for 
single slide chips, if the sandwich is cut down.  

And I haven't even broken the box seal on the PhotoSmart printer I 
bought at the same time!  Ah, time.......
KL
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Kenneth Luker
Marriott Library Systems and Technical Services
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