TheShoe Loc: Lacey, WA

Recently my wife found a box of old pictures. slides, negatives and prints, that I want to digitize. I had a CanoScan 9000F connected to my previous PC, the one that had multiple failures which prompted me top replace it. At the time, there was nothing that I wanted to scan, so I did not connect the scanner to the new PC. I have now connected the scanner and downloaded the current drivers and software from Canon and begun the process of scanning the contents of the box.

I was disappointed with the Canon s/w because it would not allow me to save files as any,thing except for JPEGs. I downloaded SilverFast 9 and am trying to use it. It does allow TIFF output. That said, I have recently found a couple of problems. The first is that the TIFFs, while large in size, only accommodate minor adjustments. The second problem is that some of the output has mystery splotches of color as seen in the sample attached below. When the splotches occur, it is slide-specific. They do follow the slide regardless of the slot used; however, they are dependent on the orientation of the slide in the slide tray, They are always on the the side that becomes the upper edge of the scanned image. when I turn the slide 180 degrees and rescan it, the splotches appear on the opposite side of the image. The splotches are comprised of some combination of Red, Green, and Blue swatches.

Has anybody encountered anything like this? If so, do you have a solution?

Probolem at lower left corner.

ccslandis

I have the Canon 8800 and had the same problem with slides.
My solution was to flip the slide (If the side that says 'this side towards screen' was down I flipped it so it was up). The images are all backwards so you need to flip it back in post processing. That eliminated the mysterious color splotch for me. Must be something on one side of the slide that catches the light weird.

For scanner software, I use Vuescan. It has a lot of options for saving (jpg, tiff, dng), 3 levels of dust/scratch removal, color options... Almost too many options to sort through.

KTJohnson Loc: Northern Michigan

I have no solution, but that is Tower Falls, flipped. By the way, the boulder fell in 1986.

TheShoe Loc: Lacey, WA

The slide is from my only visit to Yellowstone in 1965.

flip1948 Loc: Hamden, CT

You may be scanning the emulsion (dull) side of the slide. Try flipping it as another poster suggested.

TheShoe Loc: Lacey, WA

Thanks to all who have replied. Flipping the slide was the solution to the swatches of color and, apparently, the ability to adjust the images.

It did not, however, relocate the boulder that hadn't fallen until 21 years after I took the picture. I guess that the scanner could not reverse the time-travel done by the Argus C3.

crphoto8 Loc: Anaheim, California

I concur with Vuescan for software.