P3D Re: Scanning

["Michael" <blue_jay@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I bought an Artec 4x5 reflective/slide scanner, but
>it doesn't work well with slides.  It has a 4x5" tray that slides out,
>then you put your slide between the sandwich of glass, then put this
>sheet of translucent material over it, then start the scan.  The results
>are poor to marginal at best.  Without the translucent material, it's
>even worse.  Anyone have any luck with such a scanner?

I bought one of those things, too.  I thought I had discovered the ultimate
in affordable scanning; but to my dismay, the slide scans were unacceptable.
I finally broke down and sent a bunch of my slides out to have them put on a
Kodak Photo CD (3-D gallery coming soon!).  It seems that with the tiny size
of a slide or negative, you have to have good optical resolution, and
software interpolation just doesn't cut it.  I think without a true optical
resolution of at least 1200 dpi, you really can't get good results.  BTW
Gabriel, your pair looks much better than anything I've tried to do on the
Artec!

Michael Henderson (Bluejay)
http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/portfolio/25



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