Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >