[Leica] Vuescan and Nikon ED 5000 woes again

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

Thanks, I had a fairly long end on the film, I did trim it and the  
problem became worse: perhaps I did not square off the edges, but  
really this is silly, I should be able to "direct" the scanner to  
start scanning where I want to. I try skype later, but I notice you  
are off line at the moment

cheers

On 15/11/2006, at 16:17, G Hopkinson wrote:

> Alastair, I have the Coolscan V and Vuescan as well.
> Often with any software I find that the amount of film edge before  
> the first frame starts is critical. It needs to be short, and
> don't trim the corners. I did that for a while for filing ease but  
> found it caused problems. See how you go trimming the film end
> square and short, then I can offer help on my settings as well.  
> (The software is the same). (Or Skype me for an explanation???)
> Cheers
> Hoppy
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On  
> Behalf Of
> Alastair Firkin
> Sent: Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:36
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: [Leica] Vuescan and Nikon ED 5000 woes again
>
> 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
>
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