Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Frank, I'm slowly piecing together the information. As always, there is never a single product which does "every-thing". Cheers and thanks for the help On 22/11/2004, at 5:01 PM, Frank Dernie wrote: > Alastair the Nikon I have is the medium format one. It has a scan area > of up to 6cm wide by 9cm long I think, that is the maximum area over > which the mechanism can achieve the 4000dpi scanning. The 35 mm film > strip holder which comes with it only does 24x36 scans and holds two > side by side strips of 6 per side, ie 12 pictures per "load", they > also supply a holder for 5 mounted slides and a MF strip holder which > allows 3 6x7 pics to be scanned without reloading. There is a punched > hole code on the carriers which tells the scanner which holder is in > place, presumably so it knows the orientation of the frames. With the > strip film holder it only allows 24x36 sizes and, in any case the > holder has bars across between frames to keep the film flat. I have > heard of people cutting these bars off and fooling the hole reader by > drilling extra holes. Since I use the machine for 35mm film, 35mm > mounted slides, xpan, 6x6 and 6x7 I decided to buy the dedicated glass > carrier as it has masks for xpan, 6x6 and 6x7 single scans and > guarantees flatness. > The 4000 35mm scanner, now replaced by the 5000 which I don't know, > did not have a big enough scan area to scan xpan, although 2 scans and > a stitch would be possible. The roll film device is only available for > the 35mm scanner not the more universal one I bought. > To be honest I don't do 35mm film any more. I still do slides, and I > can scan them OK, otherwise it is xpan or MF or digital for me. > Frank > > On 22 Nov, 2004, at 00:23, firkin wrote: > >> Frank Dernie writes: >>> I scan my xpan slides on a Nikon 8000 but I had to buy an expensive >>> additional glass carrier with masks in order to do so. The >>> carrier/mask combo tells the scanner the size of the scan area. >>> There may be ways to fool the scanner into scanning the "wrong" size >>> using one of the supplied carrier but I bit the bullet and bought >>> the Nikon one. >>> Works great but I use mainly Kodachrome 64 and I find it scans less >>> well than E6 films, I note the 9000 has a Kodachrome setting not >>> available on the 8000. I shall be using more E6 in future! >>> Frank >> >> Thanks Frank: The Nikon seems to scan roll film strips and I would >> have thought it could therefore scan a strip of X-pan images. Does >> anyone know why it would not be able to do this if I have the strip >> film adaptor? >> Alastair Firkin @ work ;-) >> http://www.afirkin.com >> http://www.familyofman2.com >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Alastair