XPan with Nikon Coolscan 9000 problem

[dalibor]

Hi,

I'm trying to scan some color XPan negatives with the FH-869G glass holder.
While all the other scans are (more or less) OK, with color XPan I receive completely wrong colors and contrast of the negative no matter which settings I use. BW XPan scans fine...

Here is one example: www.flickr.com/photos/62021847@N06/8222475734/in/photostream

Did anyone have similar problems?

Thank you for your help.

Dalibor

 

[Bob Parsons]

This is a long shot. I've had similar but not identical problems with the 9000. In my case there were light areas with uneven color casts in the final image (from Ektar). Cause was light from unmasked areas outside the image frame. Easily cured by cutting a hole in a black paper mask equal to the image area. You would expect a light spill around a negative to give dark areas in the final image, in my case it didn't - exactly the opposite.

Bob.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

The 9000 and the older 8000ED both use the same carriers and have the same problem: stray light around the edges of the image (the clear border of the neg) cause flare. This is not an issue with regular 35mm negs, using the 35mm holder, because that holder covers the clear area between frames and around the edges.

The glass 869G carrier is really only for 120 film, it does not include masks for any 35mm film (regular or Xpan). The rotating glass carrier (869GR) actually DOES include a pair of 35mm panoramic masks. One fits Xpan, and I think the other is for Widelux negs (the image length is slightly different). I modified one of them to properly mask normal 35mm negs since I do not have a panoramic camera, and the glass carrier gives better film flatness than the normal 35mm carrier.

Bob Parson's suggestion of making your own mask should work fine.

 

[dalibor]

mask for XPan

mask for XPan

Thank you all.

I tried to do a mask for the XPan fomat, but to no avail...
I even modified one FH-835S 35 mm strip holder cutting the 35 mm grids and doing a hole so that the scanner detects is as a 120 holder and I masked all the open areas. All that worked fine, but the results of the scans are always the same, color wrong and unusable.
You can see the examples here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/62021847@N06/8233562020/in/photostream

I ended up buying a rotation glass holder.... :-(