[Leica] Vuescan and Nikon ED 5000 woes again

[firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)]

G'day all,

well once again, I am incredibly frustrated by my ability (or lack  
more accurately) to scan films with my really quite expensive Nikon  
ED 5000 "super coolscan". I have not touched it for about 9 months  
and I'm remembering why. Last time I tried to get on top of it by  
buying "VueScan", and I have just updated to the latest version BUT  
good as it may be I am stumped by the first negative file I put in.

Problem one: When I put the film in the scanner, it advances but not  
far enough, so that the preview includes too much blank air and  
therefore the scan is incomplete. With the Nikon software I could  
manually adjust the starting position for the preview, but I cannot  
find it in VueScan.

My litany of other problems are mainly to do with what settings to  
use to get a really high quality scan, but we can come to those if I  
could align the negative with the preview.

Cheers and TIA

Alastair