how to scan panoramas

What type of scanner do you have? On my Dimage 5400, I scan the first full frame of the panorama, and then slide the right edge of the image to the right side of the second negative carrier frame, scan that and then let CS2 do a photomerge. The results are quite good.
 
I've used GeroV's methods too. I know of people who have bought an extra neg carrier for their scanner and cut out the plastic between two of the frames to make one pano frame. i recently sold my Nikon and upgraded to a Minolta Scan multi that does upt to 6x9, so I use the middle of that frame to scan negs from my XPan!
 
I've used an Epson 4860 flatbed scanner that will scan pano sized film (and larger sizes) The quality is very good at 4800 dpi and using unsharp in ps.
 
I have an old Canon FS2710 slide scanner.

Using Vuescan aas the software I scan one half then shift the frame and scan the other half.

It is good as there is plenty of overlap and Photoshop photomerge does an ok job. Though on most occassions I have to do a tiny bit of manual tweaking.

Can i ask what resolution everyone scans at? At the moment I scan at 2100dpi is that too low?

Thanks
 
Usually I scan with 2700 DPI and sometimes with 5400.

2700 DPI is ideal for an 51cm x 21cm panoramic print, when I need bigger I use 5400.
 
Nice images Berci. I have scanned at 5400, but will give 2700 a try as well (just got the scanner last week:))
 
Thank you Gero,

Yeah, my scanner has arrived a week ago as well. I would scan 5400 more often even when it is not absolutely necessary if my laptop at home was not that slow, but the panoramic scans are 215 MBs and working on those takes ages. My PC is a PIII 500 with 512MB RAM.

Even with 2700 it takes 2 hours to scan 10 Xpan slides.

Berci
 
It does take long for good quality scans - are you scanning in jpg or tiff - from the looks of the file size, it is tiff?

amazing results though. I really like this scanner.
 

Just about everything Ive learned about scanners Ive learned in the last month. They dont include any old photographers on the design teams from what ive seen. Anyway, The negative carrier on a enlarger is a very imprtant piece of gear but on these scanners it is completely overlooked and cheep flimsy injection molded plastic is put in place where a precision instrument is needed. This can be overcame by just using matting cut precisly and then frameing anysize negative just like a slide. some kind of plastic in precision thickness and then cut to frame would do the same thing. Im working on a higher tech solution but If it works I hope I can sell the idea. Good luck and dont forget your micrometer.
 
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