Digital BW, The Print

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "nick90290" <NickBrandt@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 9:13 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Nikon Coolscan 800 120 film holder


> I just bought a Nikon Coolscan 8000 yesterday, and am getting
very good
> scans from the outset, it seems, The only problem is the 120
format film
> holder.
>
> Aside from the fact  the clips holding the negative in place
seem to treat the
> negative very roughly in the way they clip hard into the neg
edges, my biggest
> problem is I that the scanner does not scan quite the full
width of the negative
> (and therefore edge/rebate as well) in the scan. It's cropping
the last albeit
> small part of the actual image on the left side of the image.
>
> Am I missing something here? Is there some way to increase the
dimensions/
> proportions of the area to be scanned somewhere? I tried
placing the chosen
> neg in the middle of the holder but the scanner still read the
image with the
> same cropping.
>
> Oh, and also, my zoom buttons in preview won't work, They're
grey, and so
> inoperative.
>
> Any solutions/explanations much appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Nick

The Nikon 8000 scans up to 83-4 mm length and 56 mm width and
with the rotatable glass holder even a bit wider I believe.
So it will not scan the 88 mm of a Voigtlander Bessa but it will
scan the 83 mm of a Kodak Monitor to mention a few old folders.
Sometimes it is easier to use the 6x7 setting for 6x6 frames.

If you have to scan negatives you better get Vuescan or
Silverfast as the scanning software because Nikonscan has a habit
of clipping the neg shadows. And Nikon hasn't done anything in
more than a year after a list with users that complained about
that has been sent to them.

Ernst