I stumbled upon this website last year and it's inspired me to try large format film. I've bought myself a couple of 4x5 cameras and am now using a chomanix with a fuji 134 5.6 lens. I'm really enjoying using the film although I've been getting mixed results so far. Now that I have a few slides and negatives to play with i'm trying to nail down my scanning technique. I have a epson v700 with the better scanning adjustable height holder. I'm currently not wet mounting my film just using tape and getting the slides as tight as possible. So i've uploaded a resent scan from a fuji 100f slide. Under a loupe the image seems much sharper. I can't seem to dial in the height of the betterscanning holder to get any better results. I'm wondering if this is as good as I can expect to get out of this scanner? Would wet mounting my scans improve the sharpness? I think the detail seems ok, although I have shots from the same location with my old 5d mark2 that are more detailed, it just seems a little soft to me. Also i used the epson scanning software and thought about trying vuescan out but not sure if it would help with sharpness. Right now I don't feel I have any exposure that would justify sending out for a drum scan, hopefully that will change soon. I'd like to be able to get better quality out of my epson though. So any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks
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