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From: "swisspace" <swisspace@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, 05 May, 2005 03:35 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Scanning Kodachrome on FS2710, was Digital, digital,
digital. Bah, humbug!
> sorry I am in transit at the moment and will give a more detailed reply
> later on in the week.
>
> I believe that the FS2710 was an enourmous leap forwards from the FS2700.
>
> I have since found out that it is mainly Kodachrome 200 that gives a
> problem, I am using vuescan which is good, I also stripped and cleaned
> the scanner, so now I am getting some reasonable kodachome 64's but they
> are nowhere near the quality of some scans I have seen on the web.
I have a FS2710 along with numerous Kodachrome 25 and 64 slides from years
past, mainly from the mid 1960s and all throughout the 1970s. Firstly, the
slides are as good today as they were when processed in the UK, Japan and
Australia, and secondly they scan equally as well as any modern day Provia,
Velvia, and Ektachrome slides I have. For my money, Kodachrome was the
ultimate in slides.
jh
>
> I gave up for a few years after buying it, but am now experimenting
> again, so see if i can get some reasonable output.
>
> Moose wrote:
> > swisspace wrote:
> >
> >
> >>so onto next step, buy a scanner Hmm reviews on FS2700 look good, buy it
> >> and find out its useless, I am not seeing the images on the slides on
> >>the screen, read research and experiment but still 6 or 7 years later
> >>cant get a good image.
> >>
> >
> >
> > I'm not sure what an FS2700 is. I have the FS2710, which is SCSI and am
> > aware of the FS2720, which is USB 1.1. Ohter than interface and case
> > color, they are identical, with a max resolution of 2720dpi.
> >
> > I found the FS2710 to be capable of excellent scans. Getting good
> > results is dependent on the right software and knowing how to use it. In
> > what way are your scans deficient? Resolution, sharpness, color,
> > contrast, etc?
> >
> > I haven't shot Kodachrome in years, but recently scanned some from 35
> > years ago on the FS2710. I haven't posted these before partly because I
> > want to go through and redo a few that seemed oversharpened once I start
> > flipping through them all. Haven't labeled them yet either, I see. This
> > was before the OM, or even M series were made, so are shot with a Nikon
> > Ftn and Nikkor 50/2. Scanned on FS2710 using VueScan
> > <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/Havasu/index.htm>.
> >
> > Here's a version of the first shot in the gallery with a full pixel
> > inset of a foolhardy young Moose
> > <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Havasu815.jpg>. I'm also posting a
> > "From the Archives" Kodacolor scan with the FS2720.
> >
> > Scanning color neg to excellent effect is also possible, although a
> > somewhat different process.
> >
> > Moose
> >
> >
> >
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