Helmut Kotsch
hkotsch at arcor.de
Wed Jun 24 14:35:18 CDT 2009
Jim, I had app. 10.000 slides (Kodachrome II with carton frame) mostly taken in the 60 ties and seventies in the US. I bought the Reflecta DigitDia 3600. Today they offer the DigitDia 5000. http://www.reflecta.de/Englisch/Seiten/Start.htm I paid including the SilverSoft software app. 700 Euros. The scanner works like a slide projector and is actually derived from one. You put in a rail or other magazine with 50 or 100 slides and let it work for itself. 50 slides with a 3600 dpi resolution take app. 2 hours. The scanned images (app. 45 MBytes) are transferred via USB or IEEE-1394 to your PC. After that the file is being compressed as jpeg of app. 4 MByte. Everything worked fine and looking the scanned slides with a beamer is as good as looking the original slides with a slide projector. Since you need this scanner only one time (you are not taking any slides anymore) the idea is to sell it afterwards in eBay. There is a big market for these scanners here in Germany. You could get a used scanner starting with 200 Euros. Since they are only used for a couple of month and the guaranty is 3 years there shouldn't be a problem with defects of the equipment. Even though my slides are 30 years old, the colors and overall quality is still perfect. That was Kodachrome II. I also had some Agfa slides but they all have changed colors to the blue over time. Hope that helps Helmut -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- Von: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]Im Auftrag von Jim Lawrence Gesendet: Mittwoch, 24. Juni 2009 20:23 An: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Betreff: Re: [AccessD] Very OT: Kodak will retire KODACHROME Film Totally OT Hi Gustav and all: I used 64 ASA slide film for years. Though the quality of the pictures were stunning, seeing them, other than through a slide projector, was difficult and to now transfer them to high quality digital format is nearly impossible... I have never found a really good way to do this. If anyone out has had a similar situation and has arrived at a good solution (reasonably priced), I would be very interested. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 1:57 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: [AccessD] Very OT: Kodak will retire KODACHROME Film Hi all Neither is this Access related in any way nor is it Friday but ... This had to come given the evolution of digital photography. Still, it was one of those announcements you didn't wish to experience. http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=2709&gpcid=0900688a80b4 e692&pq-locale=en_US&CID=pressreleases I still remember the astonishment when I received from the laboratory the first roll I shot and viewed the amazing colour quality of this low-speed film. That is many years ago and in the meantime I've left analogue film completely. For a very good reason a memorial site is up: http://homepage.1000words.kodak.com/default.asp?item=2388083 /gustav -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com