Hello everyone.
I'm a 4x5 and 5x7 shooter. I recently purchased an Epson v700, and lately I've been trying to settle into a 5x7 scanning workflow.
I'd like to solve dry mounting first before moving on and tackling wet mounting. What I've been doing so far is taping my negatives to an 8x10 piece of anti-newton ring glass, and laying that glass across the "short" side of the scanning bed, which in effect raises the ANR glass keeps the negative off the scanning glass, minimizing the chance of newton rings. (So far, so good.) I'm continuing to experiment with differing heights of the glass by building up pieces of rubber tape on the corners of the ANR glass, and scanning with the "Film (with Film Holder)" option in Epson Scan. Surprisingly I don't seem to be encountering any major differences in sharpness so far in my limited testing. The depth of focus of the scanner is actually greater than I had imagined it would be, at least from the reviews I had read before actually buying and using the scanner myself.
I figure that eventually I'll arrive at a decent workflow. The only thing that really bothers me about the workflow so far is the glass. I can't help but think that I'm losing some sharpness simply by introducing another piece of glass. And no matter how careful I am, dusting consumes a much bigger amount of my post-scanning time than I would like.
I'm wondering if anyone out there has devised a good glassless workflow for scanning 5x7 negatives on the v700 (or v750, for that matter). Film flatness would be an issue, but having yet ventured down this road, I wonder if there is a viable solution involving double mat board or even magnets or something like that.
John
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