[3dem] scanner problems

[Sarah Butcher]

Thanks to all that offered help, advice and solace. We got a local glass
company to cut us a new piece of standard float window glass for 12 euros.
Just checking the focus.

The Nikon coolscan 9000 was still the recommended alternative, with lots
of happy users.
Regards,
Sarah

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, RICHARD HENDERSON wrote:

> Sarah,
>
> Just buy any float glass of roughly the right thickness (+/- 0.5 mm), then
> refocus the optics.  Ordinary window glass nowadays is float glass.  We
> normally buy 5 sheets all the same size and check for flatness by scanning
> some negatives that are placed in the four corners and the middle.  The optics
> has not been designed to depend on the glass.  It has a fairly small NA so the
> depth of focus is quite high.
>
> The only scanner is the Nikon Coolscan - see attached publication. It is now
> the 9000 model, but is basically the same as 8000.
>
> Richard
>
>
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >we have a zeiss scanner, and unfortunately the upper glass was smashed
> >today, just as we have 500 negatives to scan urgently.. Can anybody help
> >with details of the glass composition if we try to get a replacement made
> >locally? Or do you have a glass that you are not using (and would like to
> >ship to us if we pay the costs). I suspect that the replacement from Zeiss
> >will be horrendously expensive and slow.
> >
> >So the second part of my question is, as often see on this mailing list,
> >what is the current recommended best scanner to buy as a replacement?
> >
> >If we get really desperate, anybody volunteer to have a visitor from our
> >lab to do some scanning, or to scan for us?
> >
> >Thanks for your help,
> >Sarah
> >
> >
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