Fiche scanning redux

Aha - slide scanners comes to mind here....make your own using the info on this site... http://www.abstractconcreteworks.com/essays/scanning/Backlighter.html - has other links as well on this. I did some of this 2 yrs agao and it worked good but I forget exactly how I finally did it all. => -----Original Message----- => From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org => [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Tom Uban => Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 12:19 PM => To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org => Subject: Re: Fiche scanning redux => => => 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. => > => > => > =>