Handling different formats are the little thing that you don't see
discussed much. I have a Polaroid 120 and its preprogrammed scans
governed by the cut out notch in the film carrier are mixed. There is
no problem with slides. It gets the whole slide. But if you use film
strips either 35mm or 120, the image spacing varies because of image
size variance due to difference angles of light from the lens. And
different cameras will vary image spacing as well. So if, like mine,
the scan length is dependent on a preprogrammed length you can get into
difficulties of spacing and edges by the last frame in the holder.
There are clumsy work arounds like removing the carrier and shifting
the film and reinserting. PITA. And some people take a panorama carrier
and just cut up the images in Photoshop.
Winsor
Long Beach, CA
USA
On Aug 8, 2004, at 7:59 PM, Ross Orr wrote:
> Hey, I'm gradually moving in the direction of buying a film scanner,
> and I have a question for those of you who use them:
>
> Is it easy to scan a 35mm frame all the way to its edges and beyond?
> Or do you lose a little bit of border around the image? I love the
> accuracy of the OM viewfinder, and tend to frame things tight to the
> edges.
>
> Any sub-$500 model that people are particularly happy with? (I'd want
> to use FireWire or USB 2.0 and scan into a mac laptop.)
>
> thanks,
>
> -- Ross
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