Re: Dirty Slides - Update - Or Film at Eleven

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Yup,

I have a 2720 and Canon will not or cannot write the software to make it click in XP. Chaps my backside. Now I have a useless scanner.

Les

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From: Alexander Georgiadis
Sent: Feb 16, 2008 7:02 PM
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
Subject: Re: Dirty Slides - Update - Or Film at Eleven

Thanks for the update. I had wondered what would work for you in the end. And cool that you are able to employ that archaic turn of the millennium technology.

On Feb 16, 2008 1:36 PM, Bob <w8imo@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

After reading all the suggestions carefully looked at the slides that
were dirty and found that the dirt on most of them was on the
non-emulsion side

And as someone suggested I selected a few of the less valuable slides
and experimented a bit.  I think I can gently clean most of them with
distilled water and a q-tip, blotting with a soft tissue to remove the
water.  A gentle puff of air got rid of any lint.

The next step is to get my Canon FS-2710 film scanner going again.  I
found that I can'y get it going under XP but being a pack rat first and
a retired computer tech second I was able resurrect an older machine and
load W2K on to it.   Vuescan needs some Canon files to work.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

Bob

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