I have been following this thread and just for the heck of it I fired up my iMac and Epson V750. Without looking to see what was in the scanner I set Epson Scan profession to thumbnail. The last thing scanned was a map I drew so it was in reflective document mode. I did a preview with the thumbnail checked and it made one big thumbnail of the whole map and marked it '1" . It seems like it had nothing to do with the type of media so I thought.
Next, I put on the MF (120 roll film size) film holder with three 6x9cm negatives. I set Epson Scan to 'Film with Film Holder and the type as Color Negative Film. Of course I set Preview To thumbnail. I got six thumbnails of the three 6x9cm negatives. I've never really any time in 'thumbnail mode" so all this is new to me. I do surmise that Epson Scan knows which film holder or even lack of film holder is in the machine. So realizing it had a MF holder in there, just diced up up my 6x9 negatives as 6x6 negatives as close as possible. i got 57.7 x 35.4 mm thumbnails automatically - go figure?! Its not letting me change the document size over to w: 90mm and h: 60mm while in thumbnail mode - it defaults to probably the open space in the film holder. It just does understand 6x9 or 6x7cm negatives.
Let me know if I am wrong and there is a way to set the thumbnail size of the negative. I've just been framing out the negatives I wanted to do a scan of rather than messing with the thumbnails - life is too short.
Rob On Feb 23, 2009, at 9:20 AM, Carlos Manuel Freaza wrote:
.............gram rupert" <gramario@xxxxxx>..It seems that my Epson scan is different from that Carlos has - I use a >MAC. Could that account for it?...It looks like an Epson scanning software "bug", the default set is "thumbnail" preview, it would work right for most cases, if you can't scan MF film, then you need to change to "Normal" preview, sometimes it works, sometimes you need to re-install the software and to change the preview default set, this is the official Epson 4990 FAQ page for the problem:http://tinylink.com/?CEWUR927Ad Carlos Yahoo! Cocina Recetas prácticas y comida saludable http://ar.mujer.yahoo.com/cocina/ --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org- Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list
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