Digital BW, The Print

I just bought a Nikon Coolscan 8000 yesterday, and am getting very good 
scans from the outset, it seems, The only problem is the 120 format film 
holder. 

Aside from the fact  the clips holding the negative in place seem to treat the 
negative very roughly in the way they clip hard into the neg edges, my biggest 
problem is I that the scanner does not scan quite the full width of the negative 
(and therefore edge/rebate as well) in the scan. It's cropping the last albeit 
small part of the actual image on the left side of the image.

Am I missing something here? Is there some way to increase the dimensions/
proportions of the area to be scanned somewhere? I tried placing the chosen 
neg in the middle of the holder but the scanner still read the image with the 
same cropping.

Oh, and also, my zoom buttons in preview won't work, They're grey, and so 
inoperative.

Any solutions/explanations much appreciated.

Thanks

Nick

.................................

I don't experience the cropping issue describe.  What system are you running on?
As for the + and - zoom, those are operable when you make a selection on the preview image.  Once you make a selection you will be able to use the + button to zoom in on the selected area.  Note that the + is not operable until you make a selection that is somewhat smaller than the full frame.
 
TB


nick90290 <NickBrandt@...> wrote:
I just bought a Nikon Coolscan 8000 yesterday, and am getting very good 
scans from the outset, it seems, The only problem is the 120 format film 
holder. 

Aside from the fact  the clips holding the negative in place seem to treat the 
negative very roughly in the way they clip hard into the neg edges, my biggest 
problem is I that the scanner does not scan quite the full width of the negative 
(and therefore edge/rebate as well) in the scan. It's cropping the last albeit 
small part of the actual image on the left side of the image.

Am I missing something here? Is there some way to increase the dimensions/
proportions of the area to be scanned somewhere? I tried placing the chosen 
neg in the middle of the holder but the scanner still read the image with the 
same cropping.

Oh, and also, my zoom buttons in preview won't work, They're grey, and so 
inoperative.

Any solutions/explanations much appreciated.

Thanks

Nick

.................................


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Nick

I also use 6x6 format (and no cropping) but found it necessary to use the
120 neg holder with glass as I used to find parts of the scan were out of
focus when viewing "actual pixels" in Photoshop.  I do not use any of the
additional software (ROC, ICE, etc) when scanning, only teh Coolscan
software and I do not get bad processing times when manipilating the files
after the physical scan has completed.  I scan at 4000 dpi and 14 bit for
b&W as well as colour.  I only have 0.75gig memory but response times are
not bad after scanning say 6 images before I save them via photoshop.  The
virtual disk is several gigs by then and this is what slows response time as
photoshop is paging the virtual disk.  If you have more than one hard
drive - it does reduce processing time to have the virtual disk and the
photoshop image on separate drives.

Best of Luck

Richard

www.richardkingphoto.com

on 9/12/2003 5:39 PM, DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com at
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:21:57 -0000
> From: "nick90290" <NickBrandt@...>
> Subject: Re: Nikon Coolscan 800 120 film holder
> 
> Hi Ernst,
> 
> I'll try the Vuescan with the 8000, but 2 final quick questions -
> 
> 1) Do you see much image quality difference between regular and fine scan
> when using Nikon scan?, and
> 
> 2) Do you use the glass holder you have buy seperately, or just the regular
> holder that comes with the scanner?
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> Nick
> 
> ............................
I'm not Ernst, but...

I see the difference between regular and fine scan in more images than I'd
like.  It pops up when scanning low contrast negs like c-41 films after one
brings them up to normal contrast.

I tried the regular holder and reluctantly bought a glass holder which works
much better.
 
-Bruce

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