Question about Canon CanoScan 8400F Film Scanner

Unwanted cropping of some 35mm slides using CanoScan 8400F

Using the 'Canoscan 8400F', when scanning slides, whether the older square ones, or the more common rectangular ones, the scanner is often not coming up with the correct 'Film Size' in 'Input Settings', and unacceptable cropping of the image occurs in both 'Simple Mode' and 'Advanced Mode'.

The width (approx 3.49cm) is correctly detected, but the height is often wrong, and if I attempt to make it larger, e.g. approx 2.3 cm (instead of the around 1.9cm or 2.0cm detected), I get the message: "An invalid number was specified".

For me, a fix for this is required URGENTLY! Please help!

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Turn off the thumbnails view and you can manually set the cropping box.

Posted on Dec 02, 2007

Anonymous Dec 02, 2007

you can also try

the scanner doesn't have the DMAX to "help" these slides. Try
>using the RGB Exposure control on Vuescan. You can "pump" more light through
>the negative. Crank the value up as high as it will go, 11 I think (probably

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