Greetings! It seems like we skipped spring and went straight to summer here in Glen Arm. Baltimore tied the record at 98 degrees yesterday, and today will be almost that warm. There’s a lot going on here. We’re working on several larger microfilm scanning projects right now, with a lot of smaller microfilm and non-microfilm …
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for: ‘May, 2011’
The Upgrade to NextScan Lumintec
We upgraded to NextScan’s Lumintec lighting system yesterday. It uses LEDs (or more precisely, an array of strobed red LEDs) to illuminate the microfilm while it’s passing through the scanner rather than traditional halogen “hot lights.” Apparently, the CCD camera is more sensitive to the red wavelengths, and there are no IR emissions like you …