Contact sheets with v700

[photo_trev]

Hi,

I was wondering if someone could post their settings for scanning contact sheets with SilverFast SE and the Epson v700. I've just been taking 8x10 35mm negative sleeves and scanning them, and the quality that I've been getting is more than I need. However I was having issues with vertical streaking down the sides of my scans, and after reading a bit about it online, found that I needed to leave my contact sheets down half an inch to allow for the scanner to calibrate properly.
So now my streaking issue is resolved but the exposure of my scans is now way off, and they are coming out all blown out. I assume there is some auto feature for this somewhere that I have to disable, but I can't figure it out.

Any suggestions would be awesome.

thanks,

Trevor

 

[Faintandfuzzy]

Select your entire sheet of negs as one image, and adjust the exposure for the entire sheet with the prescan.

 

[Ronald M]

I can only tell you I use Epson software and work in full manual mode.

There is a tab at the bottom for scan or prescan. Prescan has a thumnail option of whole glass or thumbnail which you use. Rotate and adjust exposre individually for 24 frames. Then do scan.

The other way is load the neg holds in strips of 6 and scan each strip as a single picture.
If you make 4 individual marques the scanner does it by it self. Assemble the four into a contact with photoshop. This gives a contact that looks just like a darkroom one.


Either way use the neg holders and load film emulsion down and invert later.

Save the set up at the top of the dialog box where it says current settings typing in a new name. It will even remember the position of the four margues and color bal and exposure. Just push the holders to upper left so they are always in exactly the same place.

Silverfast is just a bunch of icons with a difficult work flow. I spent a few hours with it and gave up. Epson is plain English.

 

[Dwig]

Hi,

... after reading a bit about it online, found that I needed to leave my contact sheets down half an inch to allow for the scanner to calibrate properly. ...

Actually, you should be using the 8x10 film mask that came with the scanner. This will leave an 8x10 window in the proper place on the glass and its white markings serve to tell the scanning software that you're scanning an 8x10 area.

 

[photo_trev]

hmmm I don't think my scanner came with a 8x10 mask......

 

[dfoo]

Actually, I've been getting the streaks too when attempting to scan a whole sheet of negs as a contact sheet. They appear on the right hand side of the image. I've been using the 8x10 mask + a glass sheet to hold down the sheet. Is there a solution to that?

 

[EliasK]

You can do it with Epson scan software, the "film area guide" and professional mode:

-Use the film area guide (see user's guide/index/Placing Film in the Film Area Guide)
-arrange your negatives on the scanner glass
-start epson scan, professional mode, -select:
document type: Film (with Film Area Guide)
film type: as required
image type: as required
resolution: 300 (is enough)
-click preview
-click and select the negatives area on the preview window
-scan