Betterscanning altternative: Epson V850/800 holders work for V750/700

[Sal Santamaura]

..."Brownie", which I always thought was 127...

Trivia note. Brownie is 120/620. That's where Zenza Bronica came from: "Zenzaburo's Brownie Camera."

[Deval]

Thanks for the trivia note. Makes sense now

[djdister]

Epson does not call it the "Brownie" format, that's just the folks at Compass Micro being cute. Epson calls it the medium format film guide, and it is identified as part number 10 on the Epson V850 exploded parts guide pdf as Steve already noted.

[StoneNYC]

If they made a 127 version that would be AWESOME!!! I would buy that in a second!

I'm sure they would sell a lot, Betterscanning was supposed to make one and then I dunno what happened...

[richardman]

They are now out of 4x5 holders, probably because of this post :-)

They will order more stuff from Epson though. I presume they do "first come, first serve."

[Deval]

if you go to the Epson website there are other parts vendors listed.

[pchaplo]

They are now out of 4x5 holders, probably because of this post :-)

Add +1 to the backorder. They knew what I was calling for

[Witold Grabiec]

Has Epson made modifications to MF holders? The original reviews of 800 and many posts, clearly stated the film would NOT fit under the tabs and the holders were too narrow to use effectively with MF film. Also, isn't AN glass made of acrylic not glass, which is a bummer for me.

[Deval]

When I first got the holders that was my impression as well as far as fitting. The same impression applies to 4x5 as well. I will try to post a video of how I load the film under the tabs. The v850pdf instruction pdf shows it incorrectly. The acrylic back doesn't affect optical quality in my opinion compared to my betterscanning holder

[Jim Andrada]

For some strange reason they refer to 120 as "Brownie Film" (Maybe because 620 was used in the old Brownie cameras)