Just on the topic of incrementing the numbers, it would be really useful
to be able to have a *negative* increment. I never had a need for this
until last night when I plugged in the APS adapter for the LS30 (which worked
flawlessly BTW). When you load the film, the adapter winds the entire roll
out of the reel to check how many frames there are. But if you then tell
Vuescan to scan frames 1-25, the adapter has to wind the film back in again.
If a negative increment for the filename was available, the scanner could
start at the *end* of the roll and scan frames in reverse order, winding
the film in as it went. This would reduce the risk of the APS cartridge
failing with most of the film still in the scanner, but you'd still end
up with the frames numbered correctly.
The main reason for this suggestion is APS - apparently the film can come
away from the cartridge, and there is a warning to minimise the number of
times you wind the film in and out. This is an excellent argument for saving
raw scans from APS.
It would be really nice if Vuescan could display the number of frames in
a given strip of film. At least with the Nikon, the scanner always scans
the whole strip to count the number of frames, and Vuescan seems to record
this number, but it doesn't display it AFAIK. This number would be great
to catch odd numbers of frames in a film strip - especially APS - so a batch
scan doesn't miss frames, or fail because too many frames were specified.
Nikonscan displays it in the form of the number of frames in the drawer.
BTW I'm using Vuescan 7.0.
Rob
Rob Geraghty harper@wordweb.com
