[filmscanners] RE: CS 5000 ED vs. Minolta ???

["Laurie Solomon" <laurie@advancenet.net>]

I am going to assume that you are using my post to piggy-back on and are
not attempting to address the comments in my post with your remark.
Whether of not one should scan slides in cardboard mounts, no amount of
autofocusing is ever going to bring the center and the edges into
optimal focus if the film isn't flat, or if the lights on these scanners
were brighter, the lens could use a smaller aperture which would help,
but that's the realm of professional scanners, my point about the
comparative assessment of the two scanners still holds.

----Original Message----
From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
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Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 4:24 PM
To: laurie@advancenet.net
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: CS 5000 ED vs. Minolta ???

> The truth is you shouldn't be trying to scan slides in their
> original cardboard mounts.  They should be either remounted
> in glass or a high quality glassless mount (Wess or Gepe) that will
> hold the film flat.
>
> No amount of autofocusing is ever going to bring the center
> and the edges into optimal focus if the film isn't flat.
>
> If the lights on these scanners were brighter, the lens could
> use a smaller aperture which would help, but that's the realm of
> professional scanners.
>
> Mr. Bill
>
>
> Laurie Solomon wrote:
>> So Mike what you are saying is that unless the Nikon has a manual
>> focus like the Minolta does the problem is not correctable with the
>> Nikon scanner but is correctable with the Minolta; but both scanners
>> have the problem under the autofocus option.
>
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