Scanning MF on Nikon Coolscan 9000 vith Vuescan

[marek_fogiel]

This question is probably going to look trivial, but after having several

attempts at solving the problem, I've decided to look for help :-)

 

When I scan my 6x6 film, I usually put a 3 shot strip into the film holder,

but I cannot find any plausible combination of the frame count, frame offset,

etc, present in Vueascan, that would enable me to scan the second and third

frame, I always get a preview area which is either "too early" or "too late"

with respect to the shots present on the film.

 

Has anybody mastered this please?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Ed_Ingold]

Use Nikonscan (or SilverFast). However, Nikonscan has better control over frame registration. Third-party scanning programs, including Silverfast, seem to have a problem using the Nikonmaid libraries.

 

You can also play around with the position of the first frame in the holder. You need to see a little "border" in the scan area, but there should be no gap between the frame and leading end of the film. If there is little or no contrast between the border and image (e.g., a night shot), you have little choice other than Nikonscan.

[ace_fury]

Set the Frame offset to around -40 >-60 and adjust from there. Note it is MINUS before the

offset number. Once you get the feel for it it is no big thing. BTW, i would toss out the

Nikon software.

[ace_fury]

<I>If there is little or no contrast between the border and image (e.g., a night shot), you have

little choice other than Nikonscan.</I><P>You obviously have not used Vuescan or

understand how it works!

[william_carter1]

I use Vuescan with my 9000 and I also find that it does a poor job of picking up the framelines and that the "offset" procedure is needlessly opaque and confusing. For those instances where the scanner is having trouble picking up the framelines using Vuescan, I simply switch back to using NikonScan and it works more often than not.