Epson 4870 and Super Slides

[Guest]

Most of my slides are 2"x2" 35 mm format and the Epson 4870 is doing a great
job on them. I do have some old Super Slides in 2"x2" format. I was
disappointed at first that the software is masking the image to 35 mm
format. Then a strange theing happened. Two passes of 8 slides went
through with full 'Super Slide' images. Since then the scanner is back to
the 35 mm format. This suggests the scanner or software can be 'tricked' in
some way. Anyone else have this happen?

Thanks.

 

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Turn off auto cropping. Then draw marquees manually. You can set up
multiple marquees to scan as a batch. I have documented the steps here:
http://home.earthlink.net/~dougfisher/holder/batchscanning.html

Doug

 

[One4All]

Turn off auto cropping. Then draw marquees manually. You can set up
multiple marquees to scan as a batch. I have documented the steps

Doug,

You may want to revise directions on your website that "Marching ants"
will appear on all selections when doing batch with Epson Scan after
clicking All. After I have transferred an active marquee to selected
frames in Preview, then click All, only the last selection retains the
marching ants marquee, while the others have the ants at parade rest. :
)

When I scan, all frames are scanned as a batch, whether the ants are
marching or at parade rest. The only thing is, after the folder opens
with the scanned files, the files (frames, images) are in reverse order
shown on Preview.

Are you correct in saying that by clicking All that all frames should
have marching ants? Or, am I correct that only the last frame selected
will have marching ants and that Epson Scan, in batch mode, scans the
last frame first, etc.?

This question is important to me because I have very many 35-mm color
neg's to scan on my 4870, and I wind up spending the time saved by
batch scanning on rearranging the scans in the folder.

 

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You are correct. My explanation is unclear. They all should have ants but
not all will be marching.

Thanks,
Doug