Scanning update

This should have been a piece of cake, the Canon 3200F has its own light-source in the lid to shine through the slide, the Film Unit to hold slides however is designed for 35mm film not the 50mm square slides I've got. No problem both the lamp and platen are large enough, I'll position it manually and scan the whole thing. Ha! With the lamp on the maximum size I can scan is 3.75x2.3cm; I can scan up to A4 with the lamp off, but I can't override the lamp settings. Okay manually dexterity is needed, I'll manually position the slide using some guides and then move it about and stitch it together. Double ha! The bloody software keeps altering the scanning size, generally lower then the highest setting, and won't allow you to maintain a set size for stitching. <sigh>

I've emailed Canon asking if there's a way to solve this problem, otherwise I either need to find my own flat light source, find someone who'll scan them in, or ding ding ding, we had an old HP scanner with a slide scanner attachment which was just a fixed set of mirrors, I wonder if we've still got it somewhere. Yep and <giggles like a schoolgirl> it works fine. Damn! I've not got the ones of Stourport Road being built, must of picked up the wrong case.