betterscanning.com holder placement

[arnulf]

Hi all

I bought a mounting station from betterscanning.com for my Epson V750. After a lot of trying and (maybe most of all) failing, I think I almost got it now. But I have a problem finding out exactly where to place it on the scanner. Most of the time it works fine, but when scanning strips of 35mm film I want to scan one of the outer negs of the strip, that frame seems to end up outside the scanning area. When trying to move the mounting station further up or down, the scanner goes completely bananas and wants to spend half an hour to even make a preview. I don't find any info anywhere as to where we are supposed to place the thing on the scanner.

If someone here knows what the hell I'm talking about, I'd be extremely grateful for some help.

Oh, yes: I use Silverfast 8 as scanning software

 

[Shutterspark]

Don't cover up the center of the glass surface near the edge closest to the hinge of the lid. There should be a long rectangular cutout along the middle of one of the edges of the mount, which is there for this purpose.

Insert the mount with the cutout facing the hinge, and put it up right against the edge. Then position the long sides of the mount against the edge of the glass surface to make sure it's straight. Shouldn't matter which edge, but I think you're supposed to position it on the right (when standing facing the scanner with the hinge of the lid on the opposite end).

 

[xvvvz]

Take a look at page 7 of the instructional .pdf I sent to you the same day your item shipped. It explains the things Shutterspark mentioned and there is a picture showing the frame correctly placed on the the scanner if you want to see it visually.

As for judging the usable area for mounting film, look at the frame around the inside edge. The high resolution lens of the scanner has a limited field of view that is more narrow than the glass bed of the scanner (you are using the "film with film holder" software setting, right?). If you look down toward the bottom of the frame on each side, you will see a narrow slit cut horizontally into the frame almost toward the end/bottom of the side. You cannot mount any lower/farther down past that. If you look along the bottom, you will see two more vertically cut slits. Your film must be placed in between the slits. Anything outside of the slits will be out of the field of vision for the high resolution lens. For these slits to be accurate, you do have to place the top of the frame against and parallel to the top of the scanner bed and the right side of the frame against and parallel to the right side of the scanner bed.

Shutterfly's comment about not covering the calibration gap is very important and discussed in the .pdf.

Doug