Trouble With Epson Scanner

I'm currently in Europe and needed access to a scanner. I bought the Epson V350 Photoscanner, which does a reasonably good job. It has an automatic film loader and it works (considering the price), but I've discovered that for some reason or other it "crops" during scans, namely, in the "direction" in which I have loaded the negative film. For example, if I load a film with someone's head first, the scanner will crop off about a third of an inch of that person's head.

Is there a setting I'm overlooking? Is that a problem with cheap scanners? My "stationary" Nikon coolscan doesn't seem to have that problem.
ricardo
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Hi, I have a V700, it has the same issue in auto mode when using slide/film loader. I believe it has to trim a bit all round in auto mode as it sees/knows where the frames should be and crops a bit off so none of the frames are showing in the scan.

The only way round this that I know is to use in manual mode and set the areas with a marquee on the preview, a bit slow if you have a lot of scans but vital on certain images. I hope this helps.

DreaC,

You might have identified the problem. I have the scanner in "professional mode", will try the manual mode. Thanks for the tip.
ricardo

DreaC said:

Hi, I have a V700, it has the same issue in auto mode when using
slide/film loader. I believe it has to trim a bit all round in auto
mode as it sees/knows where the frames should be and crops a bit
off so none of the frames are showing in the scan.
The only way round this that I know is to use in manual mode and
set the areas with a marquee on the preview, a bit slow if you have
a lot of scans but vital on certain images. I hope this helps.

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