ulrich_michel

Like you said the duplicates are acceptable. Last summer I?ve used a Opteka like digital slide duplicator with Canon A620 and the tube to mount it to the camera body. The setup works reasonably good in conjunction with a light source around 5000K. F stop of around 8 is recommended for focus. Any dust on the diffuser will be visible on the copy. For monitor display I have no complaints, but have jet to print any of them. I?ve used this setup since schlepping my real gear on travel was not appealing.

 

Good luck.

I am curious as to what the other components inside the camera have to say about a magnet attached to the body? Remember a warning about not exposing the camera and memory card to magnetic fields.

 

Screw on adapters fastening to the camera body appear a better solution for compacts.

When pluging your adobe adress in the browser I get one of those rasmatas search options. sommeting is wrong with this address. The easiest way to find the proper address of anyting IMHO is to google it and then boockmark the apropriate responce.

 

Good luck.

Hasta la Vista, libertad

After reading Peter Gutmann article it's clear the Vista DRM was written by the NSA for "benefit" of M$ and cotails, or the other way around, it does not matter witch way, as in the end all of them want to benefit from this "enhancement"

 

At least nobody can say: They made me upgrade.

Jonathan,

 

there was a discussion here about a Year ago how to install a shim in the 200 to fix the missfeeding.

You may be seeing broken scanners, but it may be possible to make one work from others parts. Could be a job for a retierd person with the right skills. In my town we have 2 Comp receiclers, an amazing operation.

 

As for slide holders, keep digging, ask the sellers of new ones, try Europe or south America, or consider possible custom holders.

 

Good luck

Yea, The name is Photo Story 3. It normally plays with Media Player 10. Go to the FAQ page to see answers about burning to CD or DVD. This requiers Sonic.

If you are using windows XP, Bill has a free download about 5MB on his website. Have not used it myself yet, but its supposed to function similar to his XP Moviemaker. The exact name of the program escapes me at the moment. I dont know if it burns to DVD, but I have found slide shows with more then about 350 pictures to abort wile running on a stand alone DVD player connected to a TV.

You could power on and connect this scanner befor you boot your PC, and see if it gets you any better results. Also my old cheap Microtek used to have a utility to confirm the scanner was connected and talking back and fort. (communicating)

 

Good luk.

Luis,

open the pictures in a picture viewer with the ability to bring up the exif data. FastStone is a free one for example. youll be able to see all the data the picture was shot in and give you the answer to your questions.

Could you elaborate: How long you been using this card, did you do a in camera formating befor using, are you certain the camera was of wen removing the card?

 

In previeus posts you could read up about softwares and proceders to recover missing or corrupt files from memmory cards.

I've been using the stuff you pour into the gas tank to remove water, available at automotive supply stores. Look at the label, it should contain almost 99% pure alcohol. The advantage over rubbing alcohol- there is no water to dry off.

 

Oh yeah, and as opposed to butane it flashes of with a invisible flame, and propane will do it's thing in the basement first, where as alcohol rises into the attic :-)

From my experience with a few printers, the cleaning cycle consists of sucking ink thru the print head by a built in vacuum pump in the printer and expelling some ink on to the waste pad. Instead of test printing all the colors you could just print a half a sheet in the color of the errant ink. But as far as vacuum priming goes, its usually applied to all colors on the print head during cleaning cycle by design.

 

I have played with the SSC utility and would say it gives you some individual color checking ability, but you may lose other printer control options. The main reason for SSC is to override the cartridge ink counter and be able to keep printing with a refilled cartridge.

 

Make sure you have a good firewall and virus check when dabbling in these utilities.

 

Good luck, Michel

This begs the question: Does Photoshop have a fire and brimmstone pluginn to torment the unfaitfull?

The cleaning cicle among other things applys vacuum suction to the print head to prime the ink in the head. So in your case it looks like the suction tingy does its thing, but may be the print action does not deliver a electric impulse to the magenta part of the head to make it squirt some magenta???

 

Could be a lot of other causes too. Like airbubles, dried ink from having print head open with no cartrige, old magenta cartrige past use date, magenta firing head dead.

 

I musst say its a lot more fun fidling on obstinant print heads on some bodys discard printer, then on your own $$$ investment!

 

Do you still have warranty on it?

 

Good luck, Michel.

Hi Mohammad,

Check out my response on the following post, in case you want to try to fix it your self and have no warranty.

 

http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00FvTj

 

Regards, Michel

Murray, your my kind a guy, I'm all ears, let us know how the disection went. Never a dull moment on Photo Net :-)

Occasionally I use 4 Duracell alcaline batterys in my A620 and I find them to be as capable as rechargeble NM HD. Usually in exess of 250 pictures with LCD on and occasional flash use. In fact I find alcalines dont suffer from the dissapearing power sindrom after one Month like rechargebles. and the initial Voltage is higher to boot.

I remember seeing plastic bags, on some NY online sellers sites about a Year ago, sold for this purpose. Never used one myself. They claimed to have a super clear plastic at the position of the lens.

Hello Jeff,

The only advantage is speed, as wen you need to digitize a shoe box full of slides from some time ago, so the whol family can enjoy the old snapshots on the TV or monitor.

 

I have doublicatet with Pentax and slide copie adapter to film in the past, and recently with Canon A620 point & shot with copy adapter getting workable results. An important factor here is: clean slides, ability of camera to focus on film, clean lens in adapter :-) , and a cool & even light source in the 5000 K neighborhood. If your not to picky you can even post process the JPeg's with a one click software. But if you're looking for Quality and ability to print and enlarge, the scanner route is recomended.

 

good luck, Michel.

<I don't think the light source matters that much.> Well I find it helps to start out with someting close to day light.

Had good results pointing at a 108 bright white sheet of paper on the window sill about 9 -10 AM summer time no overcast.

The new twisted fluorecent Daylight energy saver screw in light bulbs (4-pack for about $12 at building supply store) have worked out good too, much better then the 3000K variety. On some slides with original blue cast wraping the bulb with above 108Bright Paper helped some.

 

As for cleaning dust most recomendations here are to blow it of. Your on the right track thinking a scanner with ICE to handle not only dust but finger prints and light mold is better. I'm also using a Nikon 5000 Scanner but in the end its a Quality versus time issue.

 

Was able to copie 200 slides on vacation in 3houers for a family member and then later process the bunch at home. good for slide shows and TV vueing. I did shot a blank at the end of a 36 pack to help with cataloging and numbering afterwards.

 

Good luck, Michel.

One shure way to make those nasty $$$$$$ signes dissapear is to send Ed a certyn amount of $$$$ an then Ed sends you a key that wipes them pesky $$$ away. works every time:-)

I dont know your Ohnar and DSLR but have used copiers gizmos on Pentax SLR and Cannon point and shoot A620. Just for your curiosity sake you could hold the Copier in front of your DSLR by hand, rested on a table, and wrap a paper tube at the place of adapter to prevent light leakeage. Try to focus on the full size slide and have somebody else confirm the focus truh the vuew finder, or just shoot some copies. keep in mind most gismos advise of using a high number aperture for this process.

 

Just curious, what's your light source in front of the slide?

 

Good luck, Michel

I was able to pick up a version 7 and a tutorial boock inclusive CD at a computer show for real cheap. Another place to loock may be hold on to your money-Bay.

 

Good luck.