Vuescan and Nikon LS 50

[John Hare]

I've used Vuescan for several years with a HP S20 filmscanner.
Now the S20 has died and is replaced with Nikon LS 50.
I'm trying to archive several thousand family negs, B&W and colour.
Problem - the negs are in strips of 3 or 4 frames and in batch mode
Vuescan seems to want to preview six frames so it previews the last
frame an extra 2 or 3 times before deciding the correct number, which
then scan correctly. This wastes and awful lot of time.
Has anyone else noticed this?
I have sent a problem report to Ed Hamrick but have had no reponse.

 

[Wilfred van der Vegte]

I've used Vuescan for several years with a HP S20 filmscanner.
Now the S20 has died and is replaced with Nikon LS 50.
I'm trying to archive several thousand family negs, B&W and colour.
Problem - the negs are in strips of 3 or 4 frames and in batch mode
Vuescan seems to want to preview six frames so it previews the last
frame an extra 2 or 3 times before deciding the correct number, which
then scan correctly. This wastes and awful lot of time.
Has anyone else noticed this?
I have sent a problem report to Ed Hamrick but have had no reponse.

You can set the batch mode to 'list' and then enter a list of the frames
you want to preview, e.g., '1-4', or '1,2,4'. Check the Vuescan manual
for more details.

 

[John Hare]

You can set the batch mode to 'list' and then enter a list of the frames
you want to preview, e.g., '1-4', or '1,2,4'. Check the Vuescan manual
for more details.

Agreed, I've already tried that and it works, but its another step to
have to remember when intermixing strips of varying length.
NikonScan4 seems to measure the strip length when producing the
Thumbnails, so it only previews the correct number, but I prefer
Vuescan.

 

[Ed Hamrick]

I've used Vuescan for several years with a HP S20 filmscanner.
Now the S20 has died and is replaced with Nikon LS 50.
I'm trying to archive several thousand family negs, B&W and colour.
Problem - the negs are in strips of 3 or 4 frames and in batch mode
Vuescan seems to want to preview six frames so it previews the last
frame an extra 2 or 3 times before deciding the correct number, which
then scan correctly. This wastes and awful lot of time.

The scanner is telling VueScan that it has 6 frames, regardless of
the actual number of frames. As soon as it does the first operation
(and I think a focus counts as an operation), it pulls in the film,
determines the number of frames, and reports the number of frames
to VueScan.

I don't have my LS-50 plugged in to test right now, but you might
experiment with doing an initial focus on the first frame before
starting the batch scanning. This might get VueScan to know the
correct number of frames before starting.

Regards,
Ed Hamrick

 

[John Hare]

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The scanner is telling VueScan that it has 6 frames, regardless of
the actual number of frames. As soon as it does the first operation
(and I think a focus counts as an operation), it pulls in the film,
determines the number of frames, and reports the number of frames
to VueScan.

Ed, that's the way it seems to work with Nikonscan, but with Vuescan
the film is pulled in one frame at a time, there is no full length
scan of the strip. Without that, how can the scanner determine the
strip length?

I don't have my LS-50 plugged in to test right now, but you might
experiment with doing an initial focus on the first frame before
starting the batch scanning. This might get VueScan to know the
correct number of frames before starting.

Having inserted the film strip, the scanner stops. I pressed
Scanner/Focus and the scanner made a noise (I presume focussing).
I then pressed preview and the scanner previewed frames 1 and 2 once
only and frame 3 four times.I downloaded V7.6.76 but there was no change in this behaviour.

Cheers,
John