Home made negative holder for Epson 4990 flatbed

[MIkhail]

I was doing some search online and stumbled onto this neat trick.
It's in Russian but pictures are self-explanatory.
http://photopad.com.ua/fototehnika/samodelnye-ramki-dlya-skanirovaniya-plenki/

Yesterday I tried it, made first prototype (for one window only, using fridge stickers) and it does work!
Here is my example. I scanned the 6X4.5 with standard holder (on the right) and with the magnetic strip holder (left). As you can see- there is an improvement.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/57pp59k2gstxrmo/05zNtCEoLC#f:New107611.jpg
Full picture is here.
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc251/mikesht_photo/New107612.jpg


Also,
There are some concerns about magnets close to scanner but the guy there says that he has not noticed any adverse effect for the last year and a half he was using this contraption.

 

[charjohncarter]

That is really nice. I bought a Betterscan holder which is fine. But I tried something like this first, I didn't think of the magnets. Keeping the negative flat is important. One thing that I did was to get a piece of plastic to align the negative straight so the cropped-scanned image would be straight. But you are probably using the side of scanner to keep everything lined up.

 

[rawhead]

Very nice… where did you buy the magnetic sheet?

 

[MIkhail]

Very nice… where did you buy the magnetic sheet?

http://www.lyt.com/servlet/the-1500/30-mil-Black-Vinyl/Detail

 

[edouard]

I was doing some search online and stumbled onto this neat trick.
It's in Russian but pictures are self-explanatory.
http://photopad.com.ua/fototehnika/samodelnye-ramki-dlya-skanirovaniya-plenki/

Yesterday I tried it, made first prototype (for one window only, using fridge stickers) and it does work!
Here is my example. I scanned the 6X4.5 with standard holder (on the right) and with the magnetic strip holder (left). As you can see- there is an improvement.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/57pp59k2gstxrmo/05zNtCEoLC#f:New107611.jpg
Full picture is here.
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc251/mikesht_photo/New107612.jpg


Also,
There are some concerns about magnets close to scanner but the guy there says that he has not noticed any adverse effect for the last year and a half he was using this contraption.

I made a magnetic holder today.Scan epson v500