scott_cudrnak

<p>Thanks for all the help. As suggested in your replies, it works to manually select the scan field for all the slides. I did a zoom preview scan so I could more accurately select the scan area, then copied that marquee for each of the other 11 slides. When I load the slide carrier, I push each slide to the lower left corner. I include about 1/32" of the slide mount which takes care of variations in the slides and verifies that I have the whole image. Subsequent scans use the same selection marquees.</p>

<p>It seems the automatic area selection is based on position, rather than edge detection. This is fine, except the size of the area should be configurable, especially since there is are fields to set the document and target sizes. I tried creating a custom target size for 35mm slides with 36 x 24 mm. Once the preview scan completes, the selection changes back to "original". I don't see any option to include anything but a link to an image within posts to this board, else I would include a screenshot of the settings.<br> Since it is a transmission and not a reflective scan, the white cardboard slide mount shows up as black. For underexposed or dark subjects, manually selecting the scan area is a real challenge. Epson Scan has the potential to do what I want, but falls short by not having the ability to set the image size.<br> Silverfast was also included with the scanner. Is it any better at scanning slides?</p>

<p>I am using an Epson V700.<br> There is a row of holes at the top of the carrier, also a pair of white squares, probably also for location. A pair of pins in the carrier fit a pair of holes in the scanner, each having white triangles to guide placement. There's no opportunity to position the carrier in any other way.<br> The problem is not skewed placement or shifted image - the cardboard slide mount does not show in the scanned image. The problem is that the image excludes a significant portion of the film image area, and the scanner software does not allow adjustment to the image size, in spite of fields designed to accept image size values.<br> Selecting an image area would require far more time than batch scanning.</p>

<p>Hi all,<br> I'm scanning 35mm slides using Epson Scan 3.9.2.2 in Professional Mode, with the Thumbnail tab selected in the Preview window.<br />I noticed that the resulting images were cropped. People's heads are cut off (Oh, the humanity!) and worse. The "Document Size" fields say 1.26' x 0.80", while an actual slide image is 1.31" x 0.90", as measured. If I change the "Document Size" fields, they revert back to their original values as soon as another field is selected.<br> I've read posts describing the same problem, and citing an upgrade to the current Epson Scan as the fix. 3.9.2.2 is the current version.</p>