Sturat this Black Widow stuff it is exactely the rip-off I had from HP.
Then ... if you want to try it ... I can send it to you for free !
It costed to me ... 3 years ago ... 1 month of pure and siny Italian cursing
.
This is quite enough for me ... I had to get on the knees on some peanuts
for 1 week to pay my sins !!
... and to buy a REAL film scanner to be able to scan my slides ...
more over ... it is impossible to scan films with this ... the orange
casting of the dye is not removable at all .
I am not kidding ... when I say I will make you trying ... then eventually
either you send it back to me in Italy either you send few bucks to pay it
whenever you will decide to keep it .
...
Ezio.
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Well it doesn't require power, it has no moving parts and simply sits on top
of your scanner its dimensions are H x 100mm, L x 170mm & W x 90mm. With a
specifiction like this all that's left is for some impressive reviews from
magazines and users to let you see what they thought.
FilmSCAN 35 produced for Black Widow by SlideScan®
'The Results: Quite simply brilliant.'
'All scans I made were superb.'
Scanned Image quality 27/30
Ease of use 28/30
Build quality 16/20
Value for money 19/20
'A neat gadget at a fraction of the cost of a dedicated accessory slide
scanning adaptor'... its a simple and very neat bit of kit - and very cost
effective to boot.'
Doug Harman, Deputy Technical Editor, Amateur Photographer Magazine, 29th
January 2000.
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 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: x Stuart !! was .. Black Widow or Slidescan
Transp'y Adaptor ???
> Hi-here is the url for this device
> Stuart
>
>
=frameset.htm&ORDER_ID=!ORDERID!
>
>
>
>
> 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
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
