Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dave, is Vuescan (http://www.hamrick.com) able to scan the Xpan negs? I'm assuming that you are using a masked medium-format carrier. Vuescan, is quite versatile on custom crop and film sizes, but not the most friendly beast. I'm not familiar with the Nikon 5000, but I'm cutting a custom mask for my Minolta Dimage Scan Multi, and using Vuescan as soon as I get down to my WideLux negs. On 2/6/06, David Keenan <ausdlk@swbell.net> wrote: > > >and don't even get me started about scanning Xpan negatives. > > Totally. > > I have acquired the Nikon SDK and am considering the creation of Xpan > specific scanning software for the Nikon 5000 scanner. > > There is simply no good solution for scanning Xpan film. This really > reduces my desire to use this otherwise outstanding and truely fun to use > camera. > > The Nikon SDK, so far, is pretty dense and even the provided sample > program doesn't even compile. > > But my idea is to position each frame so that the left side is scanned, > then the right side with about a 6mm overlap. Then dump these out to some > external stitching program while moving on the scan the next frame. > > My goal would be to have a completely automated way to scan and stitch an > entire roll of Xpan frames. > > How much would you pay for such a product...? :) > > PS. I already have the URL to market such a product: www.XpanScan.com. (No > content yet.) > > Dave. > -- > David Keenan, ausdlk@swbell.net on 2/6/2006 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Bob O'Shaughnessy oshaughnessy@mac.com http://oshaughnessy.typepad.com