RE: Tilted Scans (was: filmscanners: Vuescan feedback )

["Reilly, Bob" <REILLBO@mail.northgrum.com>]

I've found that with my Canon FS2710 that the negative holder "tilts"
noticeably when a frame at either end is scanned.  This is not too
surprising since the holder is 6 frames long plus another 2 frames worth of
holder on the "right-hand" end and the internal bracket is only 1 frame
wide.  (Try holding the end of a long stick and keeping it perfectly
horizontal -- forget about the stick bending for this test).  To solve this
"problem" I simply turned the scanner on its side so that the negative
holder is now horizontal.  Voila, with careful insertion, no more tilting!

Bob Reilly

-----Original Message-----
From: EdHamrick@aol.com [mailto:EdHamrick@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 2:10 AM
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Vuescan feedback 


In a message dated 3/6/2001 7:56:25 PM EST, djmerchant@home.com writes:

> What about subtle rotation of the crop box in the scan window?  If VueScan
>  currently does this, then I don't know how to use it.  I have had a few
>  instance of the slide being a little "off", where I think "off" is on the
>  order of + or - 5 degrees.

Rotations that aren't an even multiple of 90 degrees are quite CPU
intensive and are fairly complex to implement.  For now, I'll
leave these small rotations to other programs like Photoshop.

Regards,
Ed Hamrick