Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/06

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Subject: [Leica] scanning Xpans
From: firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Mon Feb 6 22:24:29 2006
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I think it moves the neg, then scans it while the neg is kept still, 
therefore it cannot scan the width of the Xpan neg. I looked into it 
and the 5000 simply will not be doing it without making 2 or 3 "passes"

Cheers
On 07/02/2006, at 14:30, brad daly wrote:

> 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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In reply to: Message from ausdlk at swbell.net (David Keenan) ([Leica] scanning Xpans)
Message from oshaug at gmail.com (Bob O'Shaughnessy) ([Leica] scanning Xpans)
Message from enitka1 at comcast.net (Ernest Nitka) ([Leica] scanning Xpans)
Message from brad at bradbrad.com (brad daly) ([Leica] scanning Xpans)