P3D Re: Slide scanner recommendations wanted

[Tom Deering <tmd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I've "scanned" the 3d archives at
>calcite.rocky.edu and haven't found any useful answer to this question.
  (shnip)
>And that's about it,
>unless my use of the search engine failed somehow --- no "scanner" hits
>at all in 1998!  (Yes, I enabled 1000 hits, only got about 170 I think.)

Most people on the list want to believe that there is no difference between
a $1000 slide scanner and a $100 flatbed scanner.  So the conversation
usually dies when the answer is, "buy an expensive slide scanner."  There
are *no* cheap, good, easy solutions.

I have toyed with the idea of making my own realist mount slide scanner.
My idea was to take a standard flatbed scanner with a transparency adapter,
and adjust it so that it focusses farther from the glass, to accomodate the
thickness of the mount.

Naturally, this would clobber the scanner for anything but mounted slides.
And there are a bunch of assumptions and limitations which I won't go into.
But it would allow you to capture a full realist mounted slide in a single
scan.  So color matching and alignment would be no problem.

This approach is not without limitations, like immense file size at decent
resolution.  I gave up the idea when I gave up realist format.

Tom



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