Increasing Crop Size on Nikon Super Coolscan 4000 ED

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Obviously, I should have read the manual first - this device will only scan
35mm slides! (Or part of 126 slides.)


"David Gintz" <dgintz@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Is it possible to INCREASE the size of the scanning area for the above
> scanner? I've got some old slides (I think they are 126 format or
> something like that) which are in 2 inch mounts just as are my 35mm
> slides. The film area is higher and narrower than a 35mm slide however.
> I'd like to be able to set the width and height to be the same as the
> width of a 35mm slide and then crop the resultant images in Photoshop
> later.
>
> I have seen how to decrease the scanning area but not how to increase it.
> (Maybe this scanner doesn't support that - I'll have to check the manual,
> I guess.) How would one scan the 126 slides?
>
> TIA
>
> - Dave
>

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"David Gintz" <dgintz@gmail.com> writes:

> Obviously, I should have read the manual first - this device will only scan
> 35mm slides! (Or part of 126 slides.)

Or anything smaller, using the film-strip holder in the slide adapter,
possibly with some improvisation. But not anything bigger; that's set
by the optics of the unit.

I suspect you're dealing with 127 "super-slides", actually.

>
> "David Gintz" <dgintz@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:st-dnSRMne1tle7fRVn-qg@adelphia.com...
>> Is it possible to INCREASE the size of the scanning area for the above
>> scanner? I've got some old slides (I think they are 126 format or
>> something like that) which are in 2 inch mounts just as are my 35mm
>> slides. The film area is higher and narrower than a 35mm slide however.
>> I'd like to be able to set the width and height to be the same as the
>> width of a 35mm slide and then crop the resultant images in Photoshop
>> later.
>>
>> I have seen how to decrease the scanning area but not how to increase it.
>> (Maybe this scanner doesn't support that - I'll have to check the manual,
>> I guess.) How would one scan the 126 slides?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> - Dave
>>
>
>

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"David Dyer-Bennet" <dd-b@dd-b.net> wrote in message
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> "David Gintz" <dgintz@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Obviously, I should have read the manual first - this device will only
>> scan
>> 35mm slides! (Or part of 126 slides.)
>
> Or anything smaller, using the film-strip holder in the slide adapter,
> possibly with some improvisation. But not anything bigger; that's set
> by the optics of the unit.
>
> I suspect you're dealing with 127 "super-slides", actually.
>
Could be 127 format but I don't know. My wife shot them with her old camera
back in the 70s. They're 2x2 inch slide mounts with the actual film size of
around 1 1/8 inch x 1 1/8 inch.

Anyway, I know I can't scan the whole image area of those slides in with the
4000. Silly me.

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Unless you want to spend a lot more on a medium format scanner you will
have to do it in two passes - shifting the slide 90 degrees and then doing
your best to re-assemble the scans - it ain't a pleasure.
I do this with panoramics, but the re-assembly takes long enough that with
the square format I just have the client pick the way he or she wants it
scanned and lose the extra. If I scan both ways I charge for both scans. and
so far nobody has wanted to pay me to do a re-assembly job.
The slides sound like "Instamatic" which has a picture size of 27x27mm
or a shade more. There is simply no way to broaden the scanning area of a
film scanner beyond the maximum it was designed for.
I have a flatbed with a light top I can use for it now - the Canon 9900.
This will scan up to two 6x6 slides at a time - considerably larger than
your 126 slides. It was not too expensive when I got it over a year ago, so
that might be the route to go. I've never used mine for scanning med format
(or instamatic). I do very little work for others these days. The scanner
does pretty well on 35mm film (I use it for "contact" scans, but not as well
as a dedicated film scanner. I still use my film scanner for "final" scans.

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"David Gintz" <dgintz@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:st-dnSRMne1tle7fRVn-qg@adelphia.com...
> Is it possible to INCREASE the size of the scanning area for the above
> scanner? I've got some old slides (I think they are 126 format or
something
> like that) which are in 2 inch mounts just as are my 35mm slides. The film
> area is higher and narrower than a 35mm slide however. I'd like to be able
> to set the width and height to be the same as the width of a 35mm slide
and
> then crop the resultant images in Photoshop later.
>
> I have seen how to decrease the scanning area but not how to increase it.
> (Maybe this scanner doesn't support that - I'll have to check the manual,
I
> guess.) How would one scan the 126 slides?
>
> TIA
>
> - Dave
>
>