douglas_rogers

>Has anyone scanned old super slides using this scanner? I just >received my scanner. It seems to cut off the slides at strange >places making some very thin and long. Any ideas on how to fix that?

Turn off the thumbnails in ScanGear and set the cropping yourself if it looks wrong. Every so often, the sw doesn't set the crop area correctly.

I had a great deal of trouble scanning negatives, what I found out was that you have to cover open slots with black paper or the software fails all kinds of ways. Everything just started working then.

You also need to go to ScanGear directly (the interface software for the driver) to get support for negatives and higher than 600dpi resolution.

You get to ScanGear by using your imaging software and importing or acquiring images, rather than starting with Canon's CanoScan. In ScanGear select "Advanced Mode" in the upper right hand corner.

Select "Color Negative Film" in the pulldown menu.

Canon tech support just told me to update the drivers, etc.

Attached is a scan.

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