Superb information. I have opened both of my scanners without killing them but
will surely keep the link on file and will download the file for my Epson.
Thanks Eddy-
DAW
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look here before starting
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good luck, best regards
Op 11/08/20 om 22:56 schreef Don Williams:
Jan, (and everyone else still surviving this list)
I wouldn’t hesitate to open the scanner. Most likely it’s a mechanical issue.
Also, it would be a good opportunity to clean the bottom side of the glass.
You have nothing to lose and a very small chance of making things worse. As
for me, my HP D110 printer is beginning to print all black pages as a copier (I
mean the whole printout is black) and it seems to be a known issue. It fixes
itself from time to time but I usually do copies in other ways.
I have a Perfection V550 which I bought after I lost part of my Canoscan 1230U
during the move from SD to Oklahoma. I also lost the software when I scrapped
my giant 9 drive machine that ran windows and Unix with several different
interfaces, including two versions of SCSI. I still have it but it is going to
have to go away because I no longer consult for some special market programs.
It was built in a gamers box and I had to cut the wires to all the lights, etc.
Finally it became too loud for voice output so I bought a ready-built HP which
is small and quiet.
The end to that story is that I eventually found all the parts to the Canoscan
and was actually able to find the software for it from a site over in UK.
I like the larger transparency area of the Canoscan but the Epson does an
incredible job with a “restore” setting, which is important to me because I
have a lot of old stuff to scan.
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Subject: [rollei_list] Re: I'm still here / the golden years of transparency
photography / Scanner trouble
Don et al.,
Yes, those were the golden days of transparency shooting with low cost and
speedy processing. A roll of Agfachrome 50S - my favorite film in those days -
cost about 5 DM (Deutsche Mark) in the 1970s and processing (3 DM) was always
done with at the most three days turnaround in Lüdenscheid
(Northrhine-Westphalia) where I went to high school.
Negative film processing and print development was always much more expensive,
especially if you wanted high quality prints. Needless to say, transparency
shooting and home slide shows boomed in those days. Every family had a
projector. There were two high quality Braun and a Zeiss Ikon projector in my
extended family. I still have a Zeiss Ikon with 90mm Sonnar in addition to the
Rollei P11 for 6x6.
My family lived in Ghana, West Africa, for three years (1970-73) and my father
documented his Y.M.C.A. development (masonry training) work and our family life
with a Zeiss Icarex 35S BM with three Zeiss/Voigtländer lenses, which I later
inherited. Zeiss Ikon’s last sad attempt at a consumer model… Photography
training with Zeiss and Leitz equipment was actually part of the 4-week
preparatory workshop my parents attended in the summer 1969. I wished he had
opted for the Contarex or Leicaflex SL, but $$ were tight in those days with
three kids.
He shot only slides (mostly Agfa CT18 and Perutz with pre-paid processing
mailers) mailed the exposed films from Ghana to the processing lab in Germany
with my grandfather’s return address. My grandfather then mounted and labeled
thousands of slides for us to enjoy after our return in 1973. Many of these
slides are still around. But they now show signs of fading or - worse -
fungus. I wished he had used more Kodachrome 64, as it was a much more archival
film, but Kc64 was almost twice as expensive in Germany then with just one
proceessing lab near Stuttgart.
I learned B&W film processing from a friend in the late 1970s and soon had my
own lab and Durst enlarger. Currently reviewing, sorting and scanning a
selection of all these thousands of slides and negs.
Unfortunately, my Epson Perfection 4870 Photo Scanner just stopped working
yesterday after half a year of flawless functioning (I bought it used). The
lamp carriage is stuck and the red light blinks after start-up. Anyone know a
self-repair video for this model? Should I even try to open it? Repair Café?
Jan
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On Aug 11, 2020, at 7:16 PM, Don Williams
<daw3237@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:daw3237@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I’m still here but without a camera. …..
The postal system was superb. Whenever I walked I would drop off a roll of
Agfachrome 64 in a postbox and the next morning would receive, at home, a
developed roll of transparencies. I am pretty sure the processing was done in
Germany, just across the border.
...
Sorry to be so off topic but there are so many memories the current discussion
brings to mind.
Don Williams
