In Epson V700 and Epson Scan Professional mode, I do custom frame size, and then copy paste the frame line, and move to each individual frame. This takes 48 times (4x6x2) of manual labor.
With the Plustek and Silver fast, I can scan 2 frames at a time, then prepare each exposure and press the scan button, even if the first one is already scanning, and it queues it up automatically. With black and white, I can scan almost as fast as whole frames.
Color? Ugh. I've scanned 81 before (Olympus EE cameras have a very short distance from roll to shutter so you can really pack them in!). I stick with 24 exposure, or 18 when I roll my own.
Hi, I like half frame, especially the cameras are very cute (Ricoh Auto Half, Canon Dial 35) and I enjoy shooting with them. However, it is always a shore to scan them. I have two scanners: a flatbed Epson V700, and a Nikon Coolscan V ED. And I'm using their native scanning software: Epson Scan and Nikon Scan. Neither seem to have any options for half frame.
In Epson V700 and Epson Scan Professional mode, I do custom frame size, and then copy paste the frame line, and move to each individual frame. This takes 48 times (4x6x2) of manual labor.
On Nikon Coolscan V with Nikon Scan, there is no choice other than scan 6 frames of 35mm for each stripe. Maybe I can experiment with some open source software and scripts to batch split them in half.
What is your best practice in scanning half frame? Thanks!
Using the same setup as you the supplied negative holder crops two half frames side by side (shot with a Pen FT), ie I loose part of the negative from each end of the two half frames. There are two solutions that I use: scan each 1/2 frame individually and knit the two back together in Photoshop (if it’s diptych that I wish to preserve, as shot), or secondly, camera-scan using the Lomo DigitalLIZ. The latter doesn’t have inter-negative plastic spacer bars.
Mind sharing that python script even though I don't know what that is?
I run half frame through my Nikon twice. Once for the first half, once for the second half. Just use the cropping tool. I use Vuescan and it works pretty well. Your way is much nicer though. I have to rename the first half before I run the second so Vuescan puts them in the right order or it is a mess if I forget. Plus it takes twice as long obviously...
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