Digital BW, The Print

Here "may" be an approach that will help you to solve your problem. It 
depends on the hardware/characteristics of the Polaroid scanner (which 
I am unfamiliar with). Whether it will help is something you will have 
to determine.

I have a Coolscan 8000 with the same issue. I am thinking about getting 
a 617 Fuji panoramic, but the Coolscan only goes to 6x9 ( there are 
apparently 2 motor drives...one is coarse for positioning the carrier 
"grossly" over a 6x19-6x20 area, the second is a fine mode that 
increments over the max 6x9 area for the actual scan). I found that if 
your use Vuescan software, and vary the image offset, I can get from 
2-3 scans that overlap an entire  6x17 inch strip of film @ 4000dpi. I 
was using a carrier that had a glass insert to flatten the film strip 
and which had an "open" unobstructed area of approx 6x19.  It was 
designed to allow scanning 2-neg strips of 6x9s ( or 3-neg strips of 
6x6)  , or other long film strips.

The scans are done immediately after one another w/out removing the 
negative carrier. I then used Photoshop CS to "stitch" the  images 
automatically. It performed the job very well. The images were easy to 
align (requiring adjustments in only one dimension till they overlap ) 
since the negative is never removed between scans. Also, the  scans are 
with the same scanner settings & calibration, performed immediately 
after one another, so there is no observable color shift/drifting.

Hope this gives you some ideas on attacking your problem. I'm still 
saving to get the Fuji. Until then, I use an XPan.




On Oct 24, 2004, at 11:42 AM, 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com wrote:

>>> Can onyone on the list tell me is it's possible to scan 6x17 in one
>>> pass with this scanner. I've been searching the archives but this
>>> question doesn't seem to have been asked
>
> No.   Not possible.   Hardware limitations prevent it.   I have 6x12 
> and 6x14
> negatives that I wanted to scan on a Microtek 120tf, the 
> clone/successor to
> the Sprintscan 120.   I spent a lot of time on the phone with Microtek 
> and
> Polaroid both to get a straight answer.   Basically, they told me 
> there are
> hardware limitations that preclude it and no software/driver solution 
> will allow you
> to scan negatives that long on the machine.   Back to the flatbed!
>


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