Message-Id: <199802252122.OAA54226@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 13:18:27 -0800 From: Dan Johnston <mailto:djohnsto@LIBRARY.BERKELEY.EDU> Subject: Tan: Scanners: another question To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
I wonder if any of these scanners can be focussed to compensate for originals mounted in glass? I'm thinking of lantern slides, and also big glass-mounted specimens like papyrus, of which we have a bunch.Dan Johnston UC Berkeley Library
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Terry Abraham wrote:
> We have used the Microtek Scanmaker III for glass negatives without
> problems of that sort. The transparency adapter on the Scanmaker actually
> rides up to compensate for overly thick items, but I do not recall that a
> glass negative causes that behavior.
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> Terry Abraham
> Head, Special Collections and Archives
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> On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, darren umney wrote:
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> > Is anybody using scanners for glass negatives? I was told by an Agfa
> > agent that the Horizon couldn't deal with the thickness because it put
> > it's lamps out of phase (or something like that) but that the Linotype
> > Ultras (and the UMAX Mirages) could. Anyone?
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> > Thanks
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> >
> > Darren Umney
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> > Societe Jersiaise Photographic Archive
> > Jersey, CI, UK
> > mailto:dazzer@itl.net
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