Epson V850 work-around for scanning 5x7 negatives.

[Gary L. Quay]

I'm not sure if this will be very good. The forum limits pictures to 250K unless they're on a server. You can see the lines, though. Thanks!

[Steven Ruttenberg]

can you put it on Flickr?

[archphotofisher]

[QUOTE=Joseph Kashi;1524868

I now had a 5x7 film holder that registered properly as a film holder of the right height in the Epson V850's central 5" high resolution scanning area and that supported the Ilford Delta 100 5x7 negatives quite flatly without requiring ANR glass on top.



Do you have an image of this holder and it's modifications, love to see it?

[Steven Ruttenberg]

I tried dry scanning and it sucked. Once I started wet scanning my scans quality went way up.

[Gary L. Quay]

can you put it on Flickr?

I can, but I don't want anyone on Flickr to see it. I'll try making it private, and see if it will post here.

[Gary L. Quay]

can you put it on Flickr?

It won't display here, but I right-clicked on the little box with the question mark, and it took me to the image. I may be doing something wrong. I've been off of this forum since 2014, and the way images post may now be different even though I followed the instructions on the FAQ page.

[Gary L. Quay]

can you put it on Flickr?

Can you see it on this reply?

Crown Point, June 2013 by Gary L. Quay, on Flickr

[Pere Casals]

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I think it is not the scanner, but flaws in your film.

Scan it rotated 90º and see if the lines also rotate.


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You have a lot of scratches and dust.

Handle film with care specially when wet, final rinse with some distilled water, squeeze with care if emulsion is delicate (Foma, etc).

Use a cheap HEPA air purifier to get rid of dust in the drying and when scanning, I use a Honeywell HAP-16200E I found in very cheap offer, cheaper choices would also work.

Regards

[Steven Ruttenberg]

I was thinking the same thing. I have had troubles in sky areas similar to that in the past.

[Gary L. Quay]

I think it is not the scanner, but flaws in your film.

Scan it rotated 90º and see if the lines also rotate.


________

You have a lot of scratches and dust.

Handle film with care specially when wet, final rinse with some distilled water, squeeze with care if emulsion is delicate (Foma, etc).

Use a cheap HEPA air purifier to get rid of dust in the drying and when scanning, I use a Honeywell HAP-16200E I found in very cheap offer, cheaper choices would also work.

Regards

Thanks for your help!

I was having some issues at the time with dust (it was 2013), but most of it on this scan was due to running an experiment to get rid of the lines. I placed it on a piece of glass kept a couple millimeters over the scanner glass to see if distance would help. I didn't spend time cleaning it because I didn't know if would work. The scratches weren't on the one that was done on just the scanner glass.

So, I rotated the negative, and the lines rotated. I have had this issue with multiple films, both color and black and white, negative and slide, processed by me and processed by a lab. I scanned a 4x5 slide yesterday, and the sky area showed the same lines. I notice it most on areas where there is uniform tone, like skies, but the lines are throughout the negative or slide.

I've been thinking about trying Silverfast ai 8 to see it that would help. I'm using Epson Scan 2. I went through my older scans the V800 before I had to stop using the original Epson Scan (it was 32 bit, and Apple went to 64 bit, and it stopped working), and the ones before I used Epson Scan 2 did not have the issue. I'll try to post one of those. Again, thank you for the help so far.