[Leica] Scanner stripes

[Nathan Wajsman]

Thanks to those who replied. In the end, the problem occurs only with the first two frames on the roll, both of which are quite dense. I scanned several other frames last night, and they do not have this problem.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman

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> On 17 Jun 2015, at 08:59, Chris Crawford <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:
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> That looks like a malfunction of the scanner, not an issue with the film.
> I¹ve scanned some pretty overexposed/dense negs with my Nikon scanner and
> never gotten that. Have you tried rescanning an older film that you¹ve
> scanned successfully before? I bet it¹ll have the stripes when you scan it
> again.
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> On 6/17/15, 2:37 AM, "Nathan Wajsman" <nwajsman at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I just developed a roll of Tri-X shot in my Rollei 35. The good news is
>> that the negatives are nice and sharp. The bad news is that when I scan
>> them on my Reflecta RPS 7200 film scanner, I get stripes like these, and
>> a generally unpleasant rendition:
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>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/belgiangator/misc/20150617-TriX_2015_5_2.
>> jpg.html
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>> This scan was produced with Silverfast; in my desperation I downloaded
>> Vuescan (which I otherwise dislike) to see if it would do better, but it
>> doesn¹t. Obviously, the fault is not with the negative itself but in the
>> scanner¹s interaction with that negative. The only thing I can think of
>> is that this particular frame is quite dense (i.e. over-exposed), and
>> that the scanner simply has difficulties coping with that. Any other
>> ideas?
>> 
>> TIA,
>> Nathan
>> 
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/>
>> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu
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>> YNWA
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