How can the life of a DigitDia be prolonged?
In the chapter about the Durability of a DigitDia it is mentioned that such a magazine-scanner is designed for an amount of approximately 20.000 slides. What is to do then if one has 50.000 slides in the cupboard? Is it possible to prolong the life of a DigitDia with certain measures? The same way as one can prolong the average life of a car of 12 years by a good maintenance and care, this is also possible in the case of a magazine-scanner as the DigitDia. Let’s start first with the problem of the dirt in the interior of the scanner. The slides that were kept for years or even decades in the magazine are dusty and even covered with a thick film of dirt. During the feeding of the scanner, the dust that is on the slides is dispersed by the movement and gets into the interior of the scanner. There, it likes to set down on the LED light source, on the optical lenses or even on the CCD-sensor. The consequence is a slow decrease of the image quality. There is a simple mean against the dirt o
