One big TIF from filmstrip with 5000ED/Vuescan?

[squirrel$$$bandit]

Simple question--is it possible to feed a strip of film into the 5000ED with stock feeder, using Vuescan, and have it scan the whole thing as one giant TIF? I have some Robot Star square-frame stuff to scan.

The other possibility is manually adjusting frame size...I believe you can do this too using Vuescan, right?

 

[Chris101]

If it can, I just may become a viewscan user.

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

Well, I am not having much luck so far. I think it's possible to adjust frame spacing to compansate...this option does indeed show up with the 5000ED. I have to do a bit more experimentation. If I figure out the magic formula, I'll post it here. Part of the problem is that the spacing is a little irregular on my Robot, as I imagine it is on most.

My favorite picture of my kids ever was taken with a Robot...

 

[photogdave]

Buy a used cut film holder and cut out all the frames? Maybe it will see it as one big neg?
I have a Minolta that does MF so I can just put a strip in the MF holder without a mask and scan about three frames at once.

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

This used to be a cinch with the V500! But the quality is nowhere near the Nikon.

I have an email in to Vuescan Ed about this. I thought I had it working for a minute there, with a frame spacing of 24mm, but it didn't pan out...it got me the square frames, but they were irregularly spaced.

 

[furcafe]

I'm guessing the answer to the 1st question is going to be a qualified "yes," but would probably require a tweak from Hamrick. The 5000 can only scan an area that's approx. the same size as a full 35mm frame @ 1 time, so the problem would be that Vuescan would have write multiple scans as a single TIF. I know it's capable of retaining all the preview scans for each frame when I bulk scan an entire roll, so I think the only technical limit would be your computer's memory.

As to the 2nd, I don't see why Vuescan wouldn't be able to do that, so long as the frames are regularly spaced, since you can manually set frame size & spacing. I will soon be in a similar situation w/a roll from a Zeiss Ikon Tenax II.

Will be interesting to hear what Hamrick has to say.

Simple question--is it possible to feed a strip of film into the 5000ED with stock feeder, using Vuescan, and have it scan the whole thing as one giant TIF? I have some Robot Star square-frame stuff to scan.

The other possibility is manually adjusting frame size...I believe you can do this too using Vuescan, right?

 

[lewis44]

I think the closest you can come to what you want is with the SA-30 roll film adapter or doing a modification to your SA-21 to scan the full roll (search Rff Forum for info on the Mod.). In either case you will end up with 36 images, each will be scanned with the same settings. Then you can stitch them together.
I don't believe there is a way to have it go completely thru the full roll with one scan, without stopping at each frame line.
The only way you can come close is with a LS-8000/9000 and putting a strip of two or 3 negs together and using a glass MF negative holder
I have used the LS-5000 with the SA-30 and it works great and makes scanning a lot easier.
Vuescan is a little hard to adjust using the SA-30 and getting the proper separation between the frame lines, so I always used Nikons program for full roll scanning, so there may be a workaround, but I doubt it.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

I believe this is indeed impossible, unless you go down to the machine-code level and hack it.

First off, if you don't have sufficient physical memory, Nikon Scan will bail out. So if you scan a whole roll, of, say, 24 frames, and scan it at 4000dpi, you'll end up with about 24 GBs (that is, 24 * 1024 * 1024 = 25,165,824 bytes) which will need to be stored in memory and recomputed if you have ICE, multiple scanning, etc.

Absolutely no way you can do this if you just want to do this out of the box.

A "crazy idea" would be to let it batch scan, and then stitch in Photoshop. You better have more than enough scratch disk space and a very fast Quad Core processor.