[filmscanners] Re: Slide feeder for LS 30

["Major A" <andras@users.sourceforge.net>]

> > This is probably a stupid question, but here goes. Anyone know if the
> > SF-200 slide feeder will work on the Nikon LS 30 film scanner? No where
> > in the Nikon literature do I see that it will. It is only listed for the
> > LS 2000. However, they use the same film strip feeder, the SA-20. So I
> > have hope.
>
> I guess the LS-30 firmware is throttled in such a way as to prevent the
> scanner talking to the feeder -- just as it prevents output beyond 8 bits per
> channel and prevents one step multi-scanning.

Actually, it throttles output to 10 bits, where the LS-2000 has 12 (I
believe). The software that comes with it can't use more than 8 bits,
but just about anything else can.

  Andras

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