Re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.2.11 Available

[Arthur Entlich <artistic@ampsc.com>]

Gee, you'd think Nikon was trying to design the Segue or something ;-)

Art

Julian Robinson wrote:


 >
 > For people using the motorised feeder this may cause a different problem
 > though, bec the strip feeder on some machines (mine anyway) is
 > misaligned "front to back".  That is, the leading edge of the film is
 > closer to the scan head than the trailing edge.  To avoid biasing the
 > focus point away from one end or the other, in this sutuation the focus
 > point needs to be on the "y" axis.
 >
 > An alternative would be to put the focus point about 1/8th of the film
 > width from the top or bottom edge (in the middle in the long
 > dimension).  I have found this gives the closer to the "average" focus
 > point and does not give a bias to one end or the other.
 >
 > I can't see any actual advantage in putting the focus point towards a
 > corner rather than just near the top or bottom edge.
 >
 > Julian R