[filmscanners] RE: Scanning old Lantern Slides

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

John,

It is not an impossible task; but I think due to the thickness of the
lantern slides, you will need to use a flatbed with a transparency adapter.
The key question will be how big the intended enlargements and prints are
desired, which will indirectly impact on the amount of optical dpi that will
be needed.  Typically, I think that 1200 optical dpi should be sufficient
with interpolation used sparingly when needed if large enlargements are
desired or if large amounts of cropping is used.  Given what I assume to be
the general quality of those types of slides, I do not think they would
suffer from limited interpolation.  The Agfa T2500 would be nice; but it
might be overkill in terms of price and absolute requirements.

-----Original Message-----
From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of John Prokos
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 9:04 PM
To: laurie@advancenet.net
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Scanning old Lantern Slides


Laurie,

Thanks for your input. Some of these problems do exist. But there is always
Photoshop to help correct these issues. In fact some of the lantern slides
are cracked, so this will definitely be a Photoshop task.

Regards,

John

on 02/05/02 5:24 PM, Laurie Solomon at laurie@advancenet.net wrote:

> In the case of lantern slides, it is not how big are they as much as how
> thick are they and how good is the emulsion that is painted on the glass
in
> an unprotected manner.  Remember were are actually talking about small
glass
> plate positives here sort of like the old glass plate black and white
> negatives.  These may also be some issues with respect to scanning through
> glass in terms of light dispersion and refraction as well as the capturing
> of any flaws and faults in the glass of the lantern slide itself.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Richard
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 4:53 AM
> To: laurie@advancenet.net
> Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Scanning old Lantern Slides
>

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