[Leica] scanning Xpans

[brad at bradbrad.com (brad daly)]

ernest,

that's exactly how i do it.  not impossible--quite often quite easy.

what i find so annoying is this: i have the roll-film adapter for the  
coolscan 4000.  it handles a roll of regular 35mm stuff no problemo.   
if it would just *pretend* it's scanning a regular roll of Xpans, and  
scan them in halves--or even sometimes in threes, given registration  
issues and all, i'd be fine splicing them together.  what happens is  
that a roll of Xpan images really confuses it.  it takes in the first  
*half* of the roll just fine.  but when it gets to the middle it  
starts skipping frames and scanning only half frames.  this means, in  
order to scan a whole roll, i have to run it through once forwards  
and once backwards.  the two *halves* of the second half images are  
reversed (BA instead of AB), which makes looking at them on a contact  
sheet really confusing.

not a huge problem, obviously, since i put up with it, but still  
something i'd like to get corrected.  i assume it's just a software  
issue that could be solved relatively easily.  all one would have to  
do is tell the scanner than 65mm-wide images are okay.

--brad

On 6 Feb 2006, at 7:33 PM, Ernest Nitka wrote:

> 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.




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