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Subject: [Leica] Re: Next e-mail: help
From: firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Tue Nov 23 02:58:59 2004
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Thanks Frank, I'm slowly piecing together the information. As always, 
there is never a single product which does "every-thing".

Cheers and thanks for the help
On 22/11/2004, at 5:01 PM, Frank Dernie wrote:

> 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 
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