Vuescan upsets on offset

[Andre]

My vuescan 9.6.65 for Mac OS X, on a Coolscan III, scans my negatives
from the very beginning of the film. I have tried all the settings,
auto, manual, and nothing does it. I scan mostly very pale b&W
negatives (stage photography) but the same happens with normally
exposed films. For example, if the film is cut 3 mm after a photogram
(as in the first or last photogram of a film), it scans from the
border and "cuts" 3 mm at the end of the first photogram. And the
same erroneous crop size follows on the other photograms of the same
slice.

Is it possible to overcome this on this scanner / Vuescan combination?
To cut my negatives and put them in a slide frame is certainly not my
first option...

Thanks for any help,

Andre

 

[Bob Shomler]

My vuescan 9.6.65 for Mac OS X, on a Coolscan III, scans my negatives
from the very beginning of the film. I have tried all the settings,
auto, manual, and nothing does it. I scan mostly very pale b&W
negatives (stage photography) but the same happens with normally
exposed films. For example, if the film is cut 3 mm after a photogram
(as in the first or last photogram of a film), it scans from the
border and "cuts" 3 mm at the end of the first photogram. And the
same erroneous crop size follows on the other photograms of the same
slice.

Is it possible to overcome this on this scanner / Vuescan combination?
To cut my negatives and put them in a slide frame is certainly not my
first option...

Thanks for any help,

Andre

Have you tried non zero values in Vuescan's Device->Frame offset option?

Another trick is to first preview a frame that is not the first on the
strip, possibly using device offset values. Then when framing is
correct go back to preview and scan frame 1.

Both of these work with my LS-30.

Bob Shomler
www.shomler.com

 

[Jeff Randall]

Andre:

Check out the VueScan User's Guide-- Input tab, Frame offset
discussion. Unfortunately Vuescan does not (can not?) use the same
frame finding method as NikonScan. Ed Hamrick has worked on this for
a couple of years.

Jeff Randall

 

[Ralf R. Radermacher]

My vuescan 9.6.65 ...

Could this be due to a problem with your time machine? ;-)

Ralf

 

[Andre]

My vuescan 9.6.65 ...

Could this be due to a problem with your time machine? ;-)

Ralf

Oh! that was due to be posted in 2006...

Andre

 

[Andre]

Thanks for the help. I was not working in the right box to set the
offset. I was in the Crop bar instead of the Input bar. Now it works
fine.

Andre