RE: Negative/positive scanner / Re: XPan image scanner

[Varró Norbert <varron@xxxxxxx>]

Opps,

I managed to answer a question old....2 years! (Its getting late in the
office this Friday afternoon...better go down to the pub)

But the topic is never old:
"Wed 10/25/00 5:02 PM Folks,  Does anyone know of a 35mm film scanner usable
on a Macintosh that
will scan entire unmounted XPan images (negatives & transparencies) shot in
panoramic mode (24mm X 65mm) in one pass? )"
So the answer is ever since:
It is often not the scanner but the software. Try www.hamrick.com and
download his Vuescan software.
It handles many types of scanners and tweaks many of them to use longer
formats.
E.g. I am using the HP Photoscan v1, originally not capable for panoramas
with this software and it works good (until the last version which is
somewhat not fully supporting this type)
Pick one type of scanner from the list that you can afford and voila.

Good luck,
Norbert

-----Original Message-----
From: Varró Norbert 
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 5:46 PM
To: 'panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: Negative/positive scanner


Yes. It makes a single scan of the whole 169 mm allowed length of the strip
(around 150Meg!) then crops it depending the size you enter (36, 58mm or
whatever) to individual images.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan & Shari Kafton [mailto:shmooze@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, November 27, 1998 9:20 PM
To: panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Negative/positive scanner


=?iso-8859-2?Q?Varr=F3_Norbert?= wrote:
> 
> I am using it for few days now.
> It scans full 30bits, 58 mm long panoramas, trouble free (unlike the HP
> software)
> Hihly recommended.
> 
> Nrbert
> 
> -
> Varró Norbert
> Budapest Bank Minoségi Ig.
> Tel: +(361) 328-1644
> 
> > ----------
> > From:         Mike Sinclair[SMTP:sinclair@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent:         Friday, November 27, 1998 10:58 AM
> > To:   panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject:      Negative/positive scanner
> >
> > Just read about some shareware called VueSmart
> > (http://www.hamrick.com/)
> > that looks like it could make the HP PhotoSmart scanner (~$200US) VERY
> > useful to panoramic photographers. Though I haven't used this
> > software, it
> > claims to be able to batch scan negatives or positives with fixed
> > exposure
> > and color balance.
> >
> > I'm not sure if the software will allow longer than a 36mm scan, I'd
> > bet the
> > author might be coaxed into providing for it as the scanner is
> > capable.
> >
> > -Mike Sinclair--
> >

Norbert,

You are using the scanner/software to scan 58mm images (Horizon?), but
do you know if it can handle the full 6 or 7 inch length the scanner
mechanical design should allow?

Thanks, Alan