The document table will be used for scanning prints and I have plenty of prints to scan. So all I'll need is real ANR glass for the 4x5 holder. With the V800, I'll only be using the 4x5 film holder and the glass document table. My dedicated film scanners take care of 60mm and smaller, for which I have the proper glass to sandwich the film strips between My Microtek i900 flatbed was just not producing images as sharp as they should be and sharpening tools in external editors were taken to their limits to sharpen the images to make them look just normal, but such intense sharpening often spoiled the images. The reason I bought this V800, apart from a discounted price, was to scan larger than 60mm. A tad expensive for the 4x5 piece, but not so bad for the MF & 35mm.Ĭommon 35mm ANR glass inserts are on Ebay, the MF is taken care of with the Better Scanning products.I use their carrier for MF.

I replaced ALL of those E parts on my V800 with Real Anti Newton Ring, acid etched glass. Their (Epson) idea of 'glass' is plexiglass, which is a PLASTIC of polycarbonate nature. Kmac, I offer you some non Epson 'options' for the V800. After my wife checks that out I can then assess her attitude towards LF. He does not scan but other LF scanned prints will be on display.

I am taking my wife to see Christopher Burketts work at Photography West in Carmel tomorrow. I am going to think about it for a couple months and then decide. I guess it's time to determine once and for all if I want to try 4x5 or not. Not sure what to do but am tempted to purchase a new scanner. And again as before the stripe does not switch to the other side if you flip the negative for scanning. I put the scanner back together and it still works but the color stripe has moved to the other side. It seemed very clean to me but I cleaned it anyway. Anyway with your diagrams I was able to take the V600 apart and clean the glass. If you flip the negative over the purple strip does not move to the other side leading me to figure the negative is fine and the scanner is at fault. I have an Epson V600 and have been getting a purple vertical stripe on my color scans. Your information was of great help to me sort of.

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