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Going off what @miro_o is saying, it looks as if the image dimensions are incorrect. I did a uni project last year where I was researching tiff formats. From what I understood, pixel data in digital files are saved in a string of data, so when the computer draws it out, it does it row by row according to the dimension of the image. If the dimension data is changed compared to the pixel data, all the pixels end up skewed. From the looks of your image, the width of the dimensions have been increased and so there are more pixels per row then there should be. Which is why there is the black bar at the bottom where there is no pixel data at all.
When you open the raw files in photoshop, does it ask you to specify dimensions?
haveo-
Thank you, and also @miro_o for your feedback!
There has been a bit of misunderstanding though -
that Frontier software apparently gives two options for high quality scans: 1) tiff 16 base, and 2) lossless.
The files they gave me were created using the tiff 16 base option - giving me the 16.9 MB, 2433 x 2433 px .TIF files (from 6x6 negative).The "weird" image I included in the earlier post with the black bar at the bottom (a 55.9 MB .RAW file originally) was given to me just to see if I could somehow open / convert it - which is, according to that guy in the lab, only possible with special software from Fuji Japan - which is why they don't hand out these .RARs to customers, but tiffs (or jpegs) instead.
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When you open the raw files in photoshop, does it ask you to specify dimensions?
Yes
salad
A question for people experienced with Fuji / Frontier scanners -
Found a place in Berlin that scans medium format for a reasonable price (yay!).
Got my first roll / the scans back from them, then realised one thing that is weird:
All the files (coming via WeTransfer in a folder named "Export TIFF 16Base") are excactly the same size -
they're 8 bit .TIF files, 2433 x 2433 px (can deliver detailled raw specs from PS if necessary), all of them exactly 16.9 MB - no matter the content; some images are basically black, some very detailled and colourful.
Asked a guy working there about it and he basically couldn't tell me what's up as he's new to frontiers.
(It's like one of these, maybe an older model)
There's basically two options in the scanning software for what he calls "full quality" scans - one being this "export TIFF 16 base" (if I recall correctly) - the other being "lossless".
I figured since apparently the files I got were all somehow compressed (in comparison the 35mm scans give ~25 MB tiffs for some reason) I would be better off with that "lossless" option - alas these "can't be opened with photoshop or anything else, only with specialised Fuji software".
Can anybody tell me what's going on / how to open these "lossless" (.RAW) files?
He gave me one of these so I could try myself, they do open up in PS, but just showing weirdness -