[filmscanners] Re: Best orientation to avoid dust?

["Ed Verkaik" <verkaik@sympatico.ca>]

> Do any Nikon owners have any experience of whether changing the
orientation does actually have a bearing on the rate of dust build up on
the mirrors?  If this is the case, is there some other design criteria
which
makes keeping the film in the horizontal plane more important than
keeping dust of the mirror?

> After all, for the owners at least, anything that keeps a scanner from
needing a service has to be a good thing!
>

I'd like to take it a step further and ask - if dust buildup is a risk,
can the unit (4000ED) be positioned upside-down, keeping the film plane
horizontal? Or, am I being ridiculous?

Ed Verkaik




Al Bond

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