Xpan + Dimage 5400 users?

[quantum-x]

Hey guys.
After much deliberation I purchased the Minolta DImage 5400 II scanner, which seems to be great.

I carefully removed some of the neg seperators, in the hope that I could scan my XPan negs natively.

Unfortunately, although the scans work, the scanner automatically skips the small section of neg where the seperator was.

The only way I have found to do full scans is to scan 3 negs, move them in the holder about 2mm, then rescan and stictch twice.

This really, really sucks.

Has anyone else using this scanner found a better solution?

If not, I'll have to sell the scanner - scanning 4 rolls of film this way will drive me nuts! :bang:

Thanks
Simon

 

[AusDLK]

I'd start setting a price...

The only game in town to scan Xpan film w/o stitching is a flatbed or the pricey Nikon 9000.

See my posting about an Xpan specific film holder that I'm developing for flatbeds -- a holder that will hold the film flat.

 

[berci]

Hey Simon,

The only way to scan xpan with the 5400 II is to scan half of each frame and then stitch it together with photoshop. Removing the little plastic dividers is unnecessary. This works very well for me.

I started a separate topic here some time ago, you might find some useful info there.
Click here -->Dimage 5400 II XPan Scanning

Berci

 

[quantum-x]

Hey Berci 🙂

Thanks for the insight!

I am more than happy to use the dimage, but the problem I find is that I have to shift the film between scans, due to the divider gap - is this what you have to do as well?

IE, when you scan

[#####] [#####]

you miss the small bit between the ] [ , so need to shift the film and rescan to get that 🙂

 

[berci]

Hey Simon,

Yes, there is no other way but to shift the film manually. I have asked Konica-Minolta when I bought the scanner and they told me that there is a hardware limitation in the scanner so it is unable to move the film holder more than it is neccessary to scan one fram while scanning. Or something similar to this effect. So I keep shifting.

Berci