XPan batch scan with SA-30?

[pulo]

Hi folks, I have been using Nikon 8000Ed for quite a long time and am tired of stitching xpan frames in Photoshop or aligning the film in the glass holder one by one. I wonder if the SA-30 35mm roll film adapter for 5000ED would help me batch-scan uncut xpan film.... Any help would be appreciated.

 

[edodo]

I only use LS50 but with Vuescan it is possible to manually select the panoramique frame as long as the LS50 film loader (not the batch one) allows. Coolscan cannot do this unless there's a way I'm unaware of.

 

[abenner]

There is a simple hack of the standard LS5000 strip film adapter to make it function like the roll film adapter, which is really just a fancy contraption to catch the film strip as it comes out the back of the scanner. I can't find the link right now via google but I'll keep looking. It simply involves placing a tiny jump wire across two select contacts in the back of the strip film adapter. It takes no time or skill at all, just wish I could find that link. Then you just use the strip film adapter and the film just keeps scanning and comes out the back of the scanner, onto the floor or wherever.

Now whether or not this will work for scanning xpan film, I'm not sure. It certainly couldn't scan a whole frame at once but perhaps with some adjustments to the software settings you could make it easier than doing it all manually. You'd probably have to run the roll through twice, the second time with an offset to get the back half of the frame, then of course stitch all the files... Seems maybe a flatbed would be the way to go for xpan film.

Any xpan users with a nice solution using the LS5000?

 

[lewis44]

There is a simple hack of the standard LS5000 strip film adapter to make it function like the roll film adapter, which is really just a fancy contraption to catch the film strip as it comes out the back of the scanner. I can't find the link right now via google but I'll keep looking. It simply involves placing a tiny jump wire across two select contacts in the back of the strip film adapter. It takes no time or skill at all, just wish I could find that link. Then you just use the strip film adapter and the film just keeps scanning and comes out the back of the scanner, onto the floor or wherever.

Here is one link to do the conversion, but could not find the simple one. Try looking on this forum.

http://jumboprawn.net/jesse/cams/scanners/nikon-coolscan-4000-sa30/nikon-scanner-roll-feeder.html

 

[didjiman]

Now whether or not this will work for scanning xpan film, I'm not sure. It certainly couldn't scan a whole frame at once but perhaps with some adjustments to the software settings you could make it easier than doing it all manually. You'd probably have to run the roll through twice, the second time with an offset to get the back half of the frame, then of course stitch all the files... Seems maybe a flatbed would be the way to go for xpan film.

Any xpan users with a nice solution using the LS5000?

I just sold my LS-4000 and the roll film adapter. I asked Ed Hamrick, the Vuescan author about this exact same issue and he says the LS-4000/5000 have some sort of builtin hardware limit that will not allow a xpan size neg to be scanned in a single scan.

This is why I bought the LS-8000 with the rotating glass carrier - so that I can scan XPan neg.

// richard