Can Vuescan parse a contact sheet?

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Been away for awhile so forgive me if this is a passé or an idiotic
question.

I have many contact sheets of 6x6 negs, 12 images to a sheet.
I am using vuescan and a flatbed transparency scanner.
Is there a relatively simple manner in which to set up Vuescan (or some
other software package)
to 'parse' apart the contact sheets and place the separate images into
distinct jpeg files?

much thanks,
Eric
 
faneuil said:
Been away for awhile so forgive me if this is a passé or an idiotic
question.

I have many contact sheets of 6x6 negs, 12 images to a sheet.
I am using vuescan and a flatbed transparency scanner.
Is there a relatively simple manner in which to set up Vuescan (or some
other software package)
to 'parse' apart the contact sheets and place the separate images into
distinct jpeg files?

much thanks,
Eric
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By contact sheet, I assume that you mean paper prints made from laying the
negatives on the photo paper and exposing with a light source such as an
enlarger.

If that is the case, because of the nature of prints, the maximum resolution
the prints would contain would be in the 300 to maybe 600 DPI.

A flatbed scanner can scan the prints and you can select the scan area and
crop each individual image from the sheet and then save into separate files.

For a sheet of 12 images, that would be 12 separate scans.
Or You can scan the whole sheet and crop and save in Photoshop.

If you still have the original negatives, then a medium format film scanner
would be a better choice. Medium format film scanners can scan at
resolutions as high as 4000 dpi or 1575 Dots per cm. A 6 X 6 cm negative
would produce a 9450 X 9450 pixel image. 9450 X 9450=89.3 megapixels.

Scan from a print at 300 DPI times 2.362 inches(6cm) = 708.6 X 708.6 pixels
= 0.5 megapixels.
 
Thanks - I meant from negatives in a PrintFile sheet.
I do have a medium format film scanner too, but I use my transparency flat
bed scanner
to make contact sheets.

I could crop each by hand in vuescan and save I guess.
I would love to find a way to drag a template over the scanned sheet of
negatives and then have a way of autocropping and saving individual images.
This would be great with 35mm negs and slides too.
Perhaps a vuescan future feature?

Eric
 
Eric -

Take a look at the Vuescan section of my batch scanning tips page. If I
understand your needs correctly, it should work just as well for prints as
it does for film strips. If when you put down a new sheet to scan it isn't
in the exact same position as the previous one, you can drag your whole
matrices of crop marquees as one group with the appropriate keystroke/mouse
command.

http://home.earthlink.net/~dougfisher/holder/batchscanning.html

Doug
 
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