Re: [APML]: Digitizing Slides. Help!

["Mark C. Taylor" <mct@interramp.com>]

At 07:43 PM 9/4/96 -0700, Chuck Vaughn wrote:
>>First, IMHO, slides were meant to be viewed by projecting light *through*
>>them.  The problem with scanner-based solutions place the slide with
...
>That's why you want to use a slide scanner for transparencies instead of
>a flatbed scanner. The slide (or negative) scanner shines light through
>the silde and onto the CCD.

Sounds nice, but I'm going to take a SWAG that it costs more than $100...
The point of using a Snappy is that it is a poor-man's (i.e. ME) all-purpose
scanner, which actually has pretty good resolution for web use...

At 07:30 AM 9/5/96 -0700, Patrick W. Greenlee wrote:
>>Another benefit to Snappy is that it will read an input image as B/W or
>>color, and will read it as a positive or negative image.  So theoretically
>>you could mount all of your film in slides and use this method to transfer
>>them to graphics.  Or if your videocam focusses close enough (like mine),
>>you could put negatives on a backlit display and take the images right
>>from the 35mm film (although I expect this will yield less detail).
>
>While working on a mini-documentery for a grad class in educational TV I
>needed to get color and black and white slides into video quickly and
>cheaply.  I aimed a Hi-8 camera up toward a white ceiling and placed the
>slides one at a time on the lense's rubber flare guard and having good
>close focus/macro capability... QED.

 (you sound like my kind of engineer... use what's handy)

>Please provide more detail RE Snappy and companion software.  Sounds like a
>budget concious substitute for some expensive and or time consuming
>alternatives that would help a neophyte like me.

See <http://www.play.com/pages/snaphead.html> or just <http://www.play.com/>
for info straight from the manufacturer.  It's under $100 and is available
these days from most computer superstores (I had to buy mine direct when I
got it over a year ago).  I've been very pleased with the results...

Good luck!
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Mark C. Taylor       mct@interramp.com
Software Engineer / Amateur Astronomer
Sunnyvale, CA   37:20:54N x 122:01:56W