Re: Questions about Nikon SA-30 roll film adapter


"haitao" <haitao_yifei@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have some questions about the aperture/scan range and the frame
> detection of this Nikon SA-30 roll film adapter. I am looking for a
> film scanner than can continuously scan a whole roll of film without
> frame separations. Actually, there is overlap between frames in my
> film, but I want to reconstruct the whole sequence of the frames
> digitally as that in the film. I hope that the scanned images also have
> overlapped area that I can put them together in software.
>
> I find that in Nikon's manual, the scan range has a 38 mm length while
> with a 36 mm effective length. What does this effective length mean
> here? Does it mean that the scanned area has to be or smaller than that
> size? If that, it looks that there must be a 2 mm separation between
> the nearest frames.
24x36 images with 2mm between images.
>
> I heard that the scanner will automatically determine frames. For my
> case, there is no real meaning separated frames, then how will the
> scanner work? Can I manually set where is the first frame and start
> scanning? Anybody has experimence on my issue?
>
It uses the blank space to determine frames. If there is no blank space,
you can't use the SA-30. The manual adapter, however, has no such
limitation. You determine where one frame begins and ends.
Jim


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