- Joined
- May 28, 2012
- Messages
- 152
- Location
- Colorado
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
I'm trying to test using VueScan running my older Epson4870 Photo Scanner for my big project.
Initial tests with slides seemed promising so I moved on to attempting to test scanning the 2.25 inch B&W negatives.
Here are the steps I’ve done and the results
Input tab Professional
scan to file
B&W negative
batch scan List
Crop tab
Manual
X size 2.25
Y size 2.25
Multicrop Custom
X images 2
Y images 3
Do a preview
Click on input be sure it’s looking at frame 1 click on crop and verify the selection is correct. 1st one is fine
Click on input select frame 2 click on crop drag the selection to image 2 which is to the right of image 1
Click on input and now it’s saying I am at frame 5.
The numbering goes down then across I need it to go across then down and I thought by using manual I could make it do that but I can’t get it to work.
Without that the automatic file naming won’t work properly
No matter what I try in terms of dragging the crop frame to the correct location it won’t stay there and actually renumber them properly.
I can’t get the screen shots to both show the numbering and the selection as it’s based on mouse location so when I try to take the screen shot the number on top of the image goes away.
This is how it initially comes up for frame 1. I can drag the crop to the correct portion of the image and it stays there properly but I just didn’t get a screen shot of it once it was in the correct position.
If I then go to input select frame 2 then I see what is shown here
I
f I drag that crop frame up to the correct image number 2 which is the horse and sulky in the upper right corner then select input to verify that I am on the correct frame It has decided that I am now cropping frame 4.
The correct numbering for these negatives is
1 2
3 4
5 6
But I can’t figure out how to get VueScan to understand that.
I will be saving to a file with automatic numbers for each frame. I have nearly 500 negatives to scan and if I have to rename them all by hand it’s a huge time cost.
When I asked for assistance from Ed Hamrick the only response was to experiment. Well I have been experimenting for over 4 hours with zero useful results!
I've tried automatic cropping and I get 24 individual frames none of which is correct. I've tried standard, letting the software try to figure out how to do it and that didn't work either. I've tried measuring the x y offset by hand and entering it in but it resets to zero.
Does anyone have a procedure to set up multiple scans at a specific custom size that will work? Not only do i have to do that for these 2.25 inch ones but I also have to do it for the other odd film sizes so I really need to get this to work.
In a related issue, when I set it up to scan 35 mm color negatives VueScan assumes that I have 4 film strips with 6 frames on each strip. My film s usually 4 frames per strip with some one or 2 only. How do I tell VueScan to ignore the blank frames in each row of frames?
Initial tests with slides seemed promising so I moved on to attempting to test scanning the 2.25 inch B&W negatives.
Here are the steps I’ve done and the results
Input tab Professional
scan to file
B&W negative
batch scan List
Crop tab
Manual
X size 2.25
Y size 2.25
Multicrop Custom
X images 2
Y images 3
Do a preview
Click on input be sure it’s looking at frame 1 click on crop and verify the selection is correct. 1st one is fine
Click on input select frame 2 click on crop drag the selection to image 2 which is to the right of image 1
Click on input and now it’s saying I am at frame 5.
The numbering goes down then across I need it to go across then down and I thought by using manual I could make it do that but I can’t get it to work.
Without that the automatic file naming won’t work properly
No matter what I try in terms of dragging the crop frame to the correct location it won’t stay there and actually renumber them properly.
I can’t get the screen shots to both show the numbering and the selection as it’s based on mouse location so when I try to take the screen shot the number on top of the image goes away.
This is how it initially comes up for frame 1. I can drag the crop to the correct portion of the image and it stays there properly but I just didn’t get a screen shot of it once it was in the correct position.
If I then go to input select frame 2 then I see what is shown here
I
f I drag that crop frame up to the correct image number 2 which is the horse and sulky in the upper right corner then select input to verify that I am on the correct frame It has decided that I am now cropping frame 4.
The correct numbering for these negatives is
1 2
3 4
5 6
But I can’t figure out how to get VueScan to understand that.
I will be saving to a file with automatic numbers for each frame. I have nearly 500 negatives to scan and if I have to rename them all by hand it’s a huge time cost.
When I asked for assistance from Ed Hamrick the only response was to experiment. Well I have been experimenting for over 4 hours with zero useful results!
I've tried automatic cropping and I get 24 individual frames none of which is correct. I've tried standard, letting the software try to figure out how to do it and that didn't work either. I've tried measuring the x y offset by hand and entering it in but it resets to zero.
Does anyone have a procedure to set up multiple scans at a specific custom size that will work? Not only do i have to do that for these 2.25 inch ones but I also have to do it for the other odd film sizes so I really need to get this to work.
In a related issue, when I set it up to scan 35 mm color negatives VueScan assumes that I have 4 film strips with 6 frames on each strip. My film s usually 4 frames per strip with some one or 2 only. How do I tell VueScan to ignore the blank frames in each row of frames?