15 Feb
2002
15 Feb
'02
4:19 a.m.
I would have to agree with Brian's comments. Piecing together the
various panels to create one page would be a pain. The slide scanners
are not that cheap either though and might be comparable to the anacomp
fiche scanners in price.
--tom
At 09:52 AM 2/15/02 -0800, you wrote:
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Tony Eros wrote:
At the 60x magnification, it takes about 9 images
to capture a single
frame from a fiche. I've put together a web page at
http://www.machm.org/fiche/fiche.htm that roughly arranges the sample
to show a sample frame from a VMS source listing fiche.
I like the resolution, but need to find a way to expand the field of
view. I'm sure I can rig up a scanning frame, but don't want to have
to stitch multiple captures per frame. If I can get this to work, it
would be a very affordable way to do high-quality fiche scans.
Unless you can automate the scanning, it's a pretty painful proposition.
Or at least it is unless you've lots of time to burn. We've got a
software tool, Stitcher (made by Realviz http://www.realviz.com/), that
we use where I work for combining multiple images into panoramic
backgrounds. From what I can find online, it looks like Stitcher costs
about $800.
Are the resolutions capable with current generation mixed film format
slide and film scanners inadequate for capturing microfiche? Looking
on-line, I see lots of high-end microfiche specific scanners--but they
have that look about them which indicates "niche market" and hence "very
expensive". It seems like one of the Nikon Coolscan film scanners might
work well for this.
-brian.