[filmscanners] Re: Autofocus-problems of Nikon LS-4000 with SF200solved :-) was RE: Nikon LS-4000ED Depth of Field Revisited

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>]

Have you informed Nikon about this... they should GIVE you a scanner.

Art

Andreas Wistuba wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> After about one year of sending one LS-4000 after the other to service
> over and over (in total I changed it 3 times and sent each one for
> service 2-3 times...) I found out myself how to improve the autofocus in
> combination with SF200 dramatically:
>
> I noticed that the roll-fimholder, the manual one and the strip adapter
> gave me far less trouble. So what do they have in common:
>
> The scanner is in the upright position!!! Yes, it's that simple!!!
>
> Use the SF200 with the scanner in upright position (you need to tape a
> credit card or something similar inside, so the slides do not fall out)
> and the autofocus suddenly works really well!!!
>
> Apparently it's not really engeneered for being used layed on it's left
> side mechanically.
>
> Bye
>
> Andreas
>
>
>


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