Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]if you use the nikonscan which works very well with this scanner, i can help you with settings. tell me what kind of film and how you are scanning PS i go back and forth between vuescan and the nikon scanner software and digital ice and gem is a key plus for the nikon On 11/14/06, Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- ------------------------------------- regards, mehrdad