Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have a coolscan 4000 AND when I had the Xpan I was able to use vuescan to manual dow what david is talking about. the two halves would be spliced together in photo shop. While it was time intensive it was not impossible. ernie On Feb 6, 2006, at 5:55 PM, Bob O'Shaughnessy wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information