"RobertL" <robertmlaws@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:db8f2e10-d6b1-4869-ae2a-25ab4768c3ed@r66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
I wonder if anyone else has encountered this:
when I scan 35mm b/w slides with a Nikon cooolscan V ED the machine
sometimes claims there is no film in the scanner and refuses to scan
or preview. it only does this for certain slides but I cannot fathom
why.
Any thoughts? How does it detect the proesence of a slide?
thanks for any helpful comments,
Robert
Very thin (optically) slide? No contrasting items for the AF to focus on?
Turn the slide?
I've had the 5000ED balk at a number of B&W films even in the strip feeder, sometimes inserting the strip backwards would resolve the issue sometime not.
Make sure the ICE is off if it is a silver based film.
when I scan 35mm b/w slides with a Nikon cooolscan V ED the machine
sometimes claims there is no film in the scanner and refuses to scan
or preview. it only does this for certain slides but I cannot fathom
why.
Any thoughts? How does it detect the proesence of a slide?
thanks for any helpful comments,
Robert
I've never used the Coolscan, but perhaps if you've set the media to "slide", it is expecting a colour slide (which maybe also allows ICE to be turned on, which isn't compatible with "real" B&W film).
when I scan 35mm b/w slides with a Nikon cooolscan V ED the machine
sometimes claims there is no film in the scanner and refuses to scan
or preview. it only does this for certain slides but I cannot fathom
why.
Any thoughts? How does it detect the proesence of a slide?
I've had this occur precisely once with the 9000ED. After a few re-tries I simply removed the film holder, shut off the machine, shut down the s/w and then re-started everything. No problem afterwards.
RobertL wrote,on my timestamp of 5/11/2008 11:49 PM:
On Oct 31, 2:21 pm, Noons <wizofo...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
RobertL wrote,on my timestamp of 31/10/2008 7:03 PM:
thanks for all the suggestions. I have tried them already in fact.
the slides are mounted and I can happily scan many otehrs from the
same batch but a few just seem to always be undetectable. Turning the
slide round does sometimes help. It's not the focussing that fails,
it's the detection of whether there is even a slide in there.
strange,
indeed. Are the mounts in any way different from
others you might have used withcolourslides?
Like, thinner for example?
It's just a few slides from a batch where all the others scan fine. I
can't see anything odd about these ones. very odd. What i'd like to
know is how the scanner detects that it has a slide in the gate -
tehre seems to be no swictc hso perhaps it is optical.
Hmmmm, just removed the mounted slide insert on mine and there are no switches anywhere. I guess it's optical. Only thing I can think of is this: mounted slides go into the insert in "portrait" position. That is: with one of the narrow frame sides facing the front of the scanner. As opposed to "landscape", where it's one of the wide sides of the frame. Maybe for those you're inserting in "landscape"?
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