Hi Carlisle, I haven't worked through the cropping issues with the latest version of vuescan myself. I'm currently using 8.0.11 (8.0.13 is latest?), which leaves a small black border at the top (most of the time). It hasn't interfered with what I'm currently doing, so I've just ignored it. There are several options for improving the cropping: 1. Use Nikonscan-I haven't used this for a while, but as I recall it crops very well. However, this isn't a satisfactory option for me, because Nikonscan's builtin profiles are not very good. I create DVD slide shows, so I need good profiles. Therefore for my work I need vuescan, which lets you create very good profiles. However, if you don't need to profile your scans, Nikonscan is a good option. 2. Use vuescan 8.0.4-no way to get this officially. This isn't a good long term solution, as Ed H. keeps improving vuescan for use with the LS5000. 3. Using vuescan whatever version, uncheck "auto position"; set crop size to "manual"; and turn "lock aspect ratio" to "off." Do a preview scan and crop the picture as you want. Note the x and y offset settings, and x and y sizes. Create an ini file using these settings and values.
I would contact Ed H. regarding your cropping problems. He's probably very tired of hearing from me regarding this issue; but I must say he's been very responsive so far. I think he reads messages in the usenet group comp.periphs.scanners more than email sent to him directly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I usually contact him both places. I'll send him a message on this issue myself in day or so. Ed >Hello all, > >Well, I finally got myself an LS5000 with a slide feeder (yahoo!), >and I'm working on learning how to use it. Autocropping is one of >the things I'm trying to figure out, as my first pass led to scans >with black edges. > >Ed, do you have suggestions about where to start when you suggest >"try the various cropping options"? > >Should I try to obtain 8.0.4? > >Should I use the software bundled with the scanner instead of vuescan? > >Does anybody else have some other ideas? > >My solution was going to be to mess with the settings semi-randomly, >and if that failed to resolve the problem, simply accept the black >edges and crop them out later. > >Thanks, > >Carlisle > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe >filmscanners' >or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title >or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body