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scanning 120 film on a plustek 8100 is now obviously possible as long as you have a way to prop the film up!!!! !!!!!!!!
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rambling details below, mostly blogging to myself.
xsane now implements a plustek 8100 driver so bye bye vuescan and silverfast, good riddance.
i was fiddling around with the xsane driver source and i got it to do a sweep as long as 61mm, at which point the head is partially off its positioning cam and also the overhead lamp is smashing into the front of the case. Of those 61mm only ~50mm are usable because the column that supports the headlamp is really thick and past a distance it runs into whatever film you have mounted. Whatever, for each 6x7 negative you just have to do 4 runs, one for each corner of the negative.
For 4x5s the tolerance is just too tight, but you could dremel out a notch in the headlamp column and cut off the front metal so that the negative could be kept flat.
If someone wanted to go totally insane they could also do 8x10s with the same concept, the only difference is theyd have to just cut off the headlamp column and design a completely new one. Crazier things have been done but I'm leaving that for someone else to pursue lol.
