The thing about the Epson V700 (and V750?) is that the film has to be on the platen glass for anything larger than 5x7. Newton rings are a nuisance when working with the film edge guide. Sometimes we get away with no rings, other times we are plagued by them. I recently bought a sheet of ANR glass from a vendor in the USA via eBay thinking well if it doesn't make things better I'll just have to use small formats like 4x5 and 5x7. So far the results are very encouraging. The negative is placed emulsion side down on the platen glass (no tape) with the film area guide in position and the ANR glass is placed on top of the negative with the matted side in contact with the negative. This is an example of a whole plate HP5 Plus negative scanned on my V700. I cannot detect any trace of Newton Rings. Please feel free to inspect as closely as you can and let me know if you disagree as my eyesight is not as good as it used to be...



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