Hi-here is the url for this device
Stuart
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At 09:22 01-02-01 +0100, you wrote:
>Stuart,
>It might be that ''Black Widow'' or ''Slidescan'' adapters are using a
>different set of tricks to cheat the flat bed scanner and to succeed to scan
>slides on a flat-bed , but I wasn't able to find any description of this
>devices on the Web.
>By the way ... when scanning slides ... this devices are they really letting
>the scanner to focus on the film surface ? In facts the reflection of the
>light coming from the lamp is not the only point when scaning slides.
>To exactely focus the film surface is one of them ... the 1 or 2 mm distance
>from the glass given by the slide frame is important enough pushing the
>optical resolution toward the edge.
>Not to mention all the other factors to be considered.
>
>I am firmily convinced that flat-bed scanners cannot succeed in having even
>a lousy chance to scan slides.
>
>Sincerely.
>
>Ezio
>
>www.lucenti.com e-photography site
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Stuart" <stuart@shaws2000.fsnet.co.uk>
>To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
>Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 2:46 AM
>Subject: Re: filmscanners: x Stuart !! was .. Black Widow or Slidescan
>Transp'y Adaptor ???
>
>
> > The point u r missing as far as I can see is that the Black Widow and
> > Slidescan slide adaptors are totally different from the transparency hoods
> > you are talking about -these are a prism device that siits on top of a
> > flatbed and is not made by the scanner manfrs like the HP device-test
> > reports from magazines are good
> > stuart
> >
> > At 02:14 01-02-01 +0100, you wrote:
> > >Rob is a real gentleman !
> > >
> > >The definition he gives about the pure sh@# sold by HP as Slides Adaptor
>is
> > >opening my old wound !
> > >
> > >The results are not poor ... simply are not there .
> > >After 3 months of absolute pain and real cursing in Italian (the worst
> > >possible and the most siny ... don't we have the Pope ..... ? ) I have
>given
> > >up (it was 3 years ago with a very expensive 6200c ... totally useless
>...)
> > >and I have bought a Nikon LS-30.
> > >
> > >Sincerely.
> > >
> > >Ezio
> > >
> > >www.lucenti.com e-photography site
> > >
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Rob Geraghty" <harper@wordweb.com>
> > >To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
> > >Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 12:29 AM
> > >Subject: RE: filmscanners: Black Widow or Slidescan Transp'y Adaptor ???
> > >
> > >
> > > > Stuart wrote:
> > > > > I am considering buying one of these transparency
> > > > > adaptors -it is a prism that sits on top of a
> > > > > flatbed and the neg or slide fits underneath. has
> > > > > anyone bought one and if so can you offer an
> > > > > opinion on the merits of it?.
> > > >
> > > > I've used a similar device made by HP for their
> > > > flatbeds. It works, but the results were very
> > > > poor on the scanners I tested. OK for web use
> > > > only, useless for printing or more than 80x600
> > > > resolution.
> > > >
> > > > Rob
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Rob Geraghty harper@wordweb.com
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
