Daniel_Buck
26-Jun-2008, 21:00
So, I picked up a sheet of anti-newton's ring glass because I'm sick and tired of the newton's ring artifacts that I'm getting :)
Well, no matter how I set it up (film on either side of the glass, glass flipped over, layed flat on the scanner glass, suspended above the scanner glass, and so on) I keep getting strange dark bars through my scans. At the worst, it's a very crisp dark band through the middle. At the least, it's a dark band on one (or both) edges of my scan. It's usually somewhere near the middle of the image. I tried lifting up one side of the plate higher than the other side, and that seemed to minimize the band, but it's still there.
I'm guessing it some sort of reflection (since I'm scanning negatives, what the scanner is seeing before it's inverted is a brighter band, not a darker one)
So, is there any solution to this? I never saw this while using the 'better scanning' film holder and glass for my 120 film, but there are no holders made for 8x10 film on the Epson 4990.
This is really frustrating me, and I'm completely bummed out about this. I had been waiting for a chance to order and use some of this anti-newton's ring glass for my 8x10 film, but now the problem is even worse than newton's rings (good news is, I'm getting no rings, haha!) I get great results with my 4x5 scans (in their holders), but I enjoy shooting with the 8x10 camera so much more! I don't really want to start wet scanning, and I can't afford to have my stuff drum scanned. Is there any solution?
http://404photography.net/wip/scan_problem_01.jpg
Well, no matter how I set it up (film on either side of the glass, glass flipped over, layed flat on the scanner glass, suspended above the scanner glass, and so on) I keep getting strange dark bars through my scans. At the worst, it's a very crisp dark band through the middle. At the least, it's a dark band on one (or both) edges of my scan. It's usually somewhere near the middle of the image. I tried lifting up one side of the plate higher than the other side, and that seemed to minimize the band, but it's still there.
I'm guessing it some sort of reflection (since I'm scanning negatives, what the scanner is seeing before it's inverted is a brighter band, not a darker one)
So, is there any solution to this? I never saw this while using the 'better scanning' film holder and glass for my 120 film, but there are no holders made for 8x10 film on the Epson 4990.
This is really frustrating me, and I'm completely bummed out about this. I had been waiting for a chance to order and use some of this anti-newton's ring glass for my 8x10 film, but now the problem is even worse than newton's rings (good news is, I'm getting no rings, haha!) I get great results with my 4x5 scans (in their holders), but I enjoy shooting with the 8x10 camera so much more! I don't really want to start wet scanning, and I can't afford to have my stuff drum scanned. Is there any solution?
http://404photography.net/wip/scan_problem_01.jpg