[DM-MUG] scanning slides

[Ray Bowler]

My experience is that you need a special holder attachment for your 
scanner to use in scanning slides. I have had one on a Umax and now 
on my HP and they d a good job.

At 12:41 PM -0500 6/18/07, John Eller wrote:
>have a canoscan 9950F.
>want to start scanning a gazillion family slides from 50's and 60's
>have failed with the arcsoft software that accompanied the scanner.
>have failed with silverfast.
>now have a "help" request in at vuescan as i can't seem to make 
>anything happen with it.
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>anyone here have experience with scanning slides?
>have any recommendations?
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>thanks.
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>mac os 10.4.9 with all related updates
>20" rev b imac g5 
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>slides are mounted in the scanner with the appropriate magazine.
>don't seem to be able to figure out how to proceed with any of the software
>to get more than a single pic, or a dozen pics, of a dozen black slides
>sitting in the tray.
>have searched menus and help files.
>have tried the old trick of just pressing every button available to 
>see what would happen.
>do fine with scanning documents and photos.
>can't figure out the slides.
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>"The stars are matter, and we're matter, but it doesn't matter."
>                                                         -  Don Van Vliet
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>On Jun 18, 2007, at 4:56 AM, Dan Lake wrote:
>
>>I have one I am interested in selling.  Contact me at 
>><mailto:dchsswimcoach at mac.com>dchsswimcoach at mac.com.
>>
>>Dan
>>
>>On Jun 17, 2007, at 12:22 PM, William Schoenenberger wrote:
>>
>>>I have (inherited) a pizmo (Powerbook G3 Firewire). However, the 
>>>screen does not come on. I suspect that the previous user 
>>>installed additional RAM and did not protect from static, etc. 
>>>Question: good  source for parts up to mother board? Haddock is 
>>>second choice as I can install hardware. Tried to put into target 
>>>mode without success.
>>>
>>>
>>>Secondly, looking for iSight camera, it is no longer on the Apple 
>>>list and I am not comfortable with eBay. I wondered if anyone had 
>>>one (for sale) and no longer needs it because the new Mac has the 
>>>camera built in.
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>William
>>>
>>>
>>>William Schoenenberger
>>>Des Moines, IA
>>><mailto:wjschoenenberger at qwest.net>wjschoenenberger at qwest.net
>>>
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