Scanning film on Canon LiDE 600F

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I recently purchased a 600F as a general purpose scanner, but since it came with
a film adapter I've decided to scan all of our old photo (lots). I'm sure it's
not the best for film scanning, but the output quality is good enough for our
purposes.

One thing I haven't figured out is how to scan film in the correct order that
the photos were taken. If I place the film strip in the adapter so that it is
scanned correctly (not reverse image) then the order of the scanning on each
strip is reversed. I could reverse the strip so that it's scanning in the
correct order but mirror images, and the use the software to reverse it back,
but that's a real pain. Or I could flip the film direction and then rotate each
image 180 degrees, but again that's another time consuming manual process.

Maybe there's a batch process where I could either flip 180 or mirror?

I haven't found any documentation that addresses this issue. Anyone have any
tips?
Thanks.
 
bregent said:
I recently purchased a 600F as a general purpose scanner, but since it came
with
a film adapter I've decided to scan all of our old photo (lots). I'm sure
it's
not the best for film scanning, but the output quality is good enough for
our
purposes.

One thing I haven't figured out is how to scan film in the correct order
that
the photos were taken. If I place the film strip in the adapter so that it
is
scanned correctly (not reverse image) then the order of the scanning on
each
strip is reversed. I could reverse the strip so that it's scanning in the
correct order but mirror images, and the use the software to reverse it
back,
but that's a real pain. Or I could flip the film direction and then rotate
each
image 180 degrees, but again that's another time consuming manual process.

Maybe there's a batch process where I could either flip 180 or mirror?
Click to expand...

Most (all) Photo editors can flip or turn images. And some allow you to
select several images at a time.

I haven't found any documentation that addresses this issue. Anyone have
any
tips?
Thanks.
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On a flatbed scanner, the film has to be turned upside down on the glass. If
you hold the film to the light and the image is correct, the side toward you
is the side you put down on the glass.

In some cases, you may have to scan the image upside down (the head of
people will be at the bottom of the image instead of on the top). Easy to
flip in a Photo editor.

Pay attention to the film edge marker, the frame numbers should be in
correct order. 35 mm film has frame numbers on the bottom of the film. And
the frame numbers are not reversed. Frame numbers always scan with correct
orientation if the film is placed on the glass correctly.
 
On a flatbed scanner, the film has to be turned upside down on the glass. If
you hold the film to the light and the image is correct, the side toward you
is the side you put down on the glass.
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Thanks for the reply. With the Canon 600F and slide adapter, you actually place
the film right side up, opposite of the direction you described. I'm not sure
how the film adapter works. On other models I've seen film adapters that are
just holders. On this unit, it's an electonic gismo that plugs into a port on
the scanner. What exactly is that thing's purpose?

In some cases, you may have to scan the image upside down (the head of
people will be at the bottom of the image instead of on the top). Easy to
flip in a Photo editor.
Click to expand...

In order to scan in the correct order, the film does have to be scanned upside
down in this unit (although nothing about this is mentioned in the user guide
which is extremely lacking).

It is easy to flip in an editor, but I'm scanning to jpg which means even
flipping can cause some loss. I'd like to avoid scanning to TIFF as each scan is
about 6.5meg at 300dpi. But it looks like I have no choice. I'm guessing most
hardcode photography folks scan in a lossless format. I don't think I need to go
to that extreme. Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks.
 
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