"crooked" and "warp" slides? Paul what on earth are you doing with criminal
and crazy slides? But in all seriousness, if they are as bad as described,
I do not see the concern about loss of quality and newtonian rings that
might result from putting them in glass slide mounts since they probably
have already lost detail and information. I would think the idea would be
to try and salvage what one could from them. At any rate, I am going to
make an off handed recommendation, which may or may not e worth the time and
effort or even be possible. Why not scan them in using a sheet of
anti-newtonian glass on top of them at the same size and at as high a
resolution as you can with a flatbed scanner; once you have them digitalized
and even tweaked in Photoshop, print them out via film recorder to new 35mm
slides or even 6x7cm transparencies, if you would like to archive the saved
images on film as well as digitallly? I realize that the resolutions even
with upsampling will not be all that great as to allow large enlargements;
but I doubt that the quality of the originqals are not good enough to serve
as a basis for getting something better at a large enlargemetn even if you
were drum scanning them.
----Original Message----
From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Paul D. DeRocco
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 12:35 PM
To: laurie@advancenet.net
Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Better DOF than Nikon?
>> From: Arthur Entlich
>>
>> Paul sent me a couple of his "cooked" slides to test with a few
>> scanner for him. I too thought these could by flattened by all the
>> usual methods, such as those you state below, until I saw them!
>> Warped is a kind word. These mounts are charcoal broiled, and the
>> base layer of the film frames is literally melted. There is no
>> method that would truly flatten these other than perhaps two well
>> clamped down pieces of thick glass.
>>
>> They are painful to look at!
>
> Heh, heh. I told you they were warped. Of course, I sent you some
> particularly bad ones. I have slides that cover the gamut from really
> bad, down to only slightly curved.
>
> Some of them had mounts that were so charred that I had to remount
> them. They were sitting in metal Logan boxes, and the slides in the
> top box were totally destroyed, as were the ones near the front and
> back of the other boxes.
>
> So are they hopelessly out of focus on your equipment, or can you
> manage to coax more sharpness out of them than an LS-2000?
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