I've got a Nikon LS-40, and after a couple of days of trials I've now registered VueScan, which seems to be excellent. I'm pleased with Ed's app, and have already produced some excellent results - particularly with some shots taken on 800 Fuji film which was left over after I shot some fireworks a few weeks ago, and which produced scans which were just too grainy with NikonScan.
In particular, I like the way that once VS is configured batch scanning is as simple as slipping the negative strip into the scanner, and walking away. I've got hundreds of scans to do, so previewing each film strip is simply not practical - once I've got a scan of sorts of every image, I can go back and re-scan any particular selections which I want to use if they need any tweaking. The only problem I'm having is that the auto-cropping seems to be way out on some film strips. Some crop perfectly, giving me the precise image exactly as if I'd done it myself, but others are so far out that I'm actually getting about 20% of the image chopped off and a chunk of the adjacent frame appearing in the scan, with the black border separating them!!! NikoScan hasn't had this problem with any of the strips it's processed. I've played around with the auto-crop settings, but to no avail so far. So, the question is, how can I get it so that each image scanned has a whole frame in it? I don't mind if there's some over-scan (i.e., the frame border is included in the image) as I can crop the individual images at a later date if I so desire. But when I'm getting frames with 20-25% missing, or even split across two images, it means I'll have to go back and re-scan the whole strip again - a bit tedious when I've got some 200-300 strips in the 'to scan' pile...! I know this question was asked a couple of weeks ago, but I couldn't find any replies to it. Any tips gratefully appreciated. :-) Thanks Mark
