Is anyone using FOCAL POINT ANC scanner glass?

[robklurfield]

Is anyone using any of Focal Point's anti-Newton glass on an Epson scanner (V700, V750, etc.)?

http://ehub36.webhostinghub.com/~fp...5467.18995*JW8A82&xm=on&product=SCANNER_GLASS

Any comments or observations you can share?

 

[robklurfield]

bump .... is no one using this scanner glass??? anybody???

 

[scottyb70]

I bought the modified film holder for my Microtek artixscan 120 and it seemed to work for me. The owner was pleasant to deal with and they shipped promptly.

 

[brbo]

Same here, ANR glass for Microtek 120tf.

Couldn't find anything locally as good as their ANR glass. Even super-duper fine gallery glass that local frame shops were offering was MUCH coarser that ANR glass from Focal Point. I use 2 ANR glass inserts (bottom and top of the negative) and I can't say that I notice any degradation (grainy glass pattern) on my scans.

Excellent communication and fast.

Not cheap, though.

 

[Dante_Stella]

I bought the modified film holder for my Microtek artixscan 120 and it seemed to work for me. The owner was pleasant to deal with and they shipped promptly.

I had them make a custom 3mm AN glass top cover for the *glassless* carrier of my Sprintscan 120 (replacing the entire plastic top part). Compared to using the original glass carrier (which I have but detest using), it eliminates two dust/flare surfaces (i.e., the bottom glass), works just as well to keep film flat (I got the idea from a Durst negative carrier - which can be set up with AN on the top and glassless on the bottom), eliminates positioning problems with the negative (x, y and rotation and that silly 70mm mask strip), and sidesteps the flimsy hinge pins (the glass is literally sized exactly to the opening; you use a pointed object to lift it through one of the side slots).

Dante

 

[Robert Lai]

I use their ANR glass for the 35mm strip film carrier as well as the 120 film carrier on my Nikon Coolscan 9000. They work very well, as well as the Nikon 120 glass carrier, which costs an arm and a leg. Dust prevention is the key. I don't see any glass grain pattern on any of the 4000 dpi scans.

 

[Dante_Stella]

I use their ANR glass for the 35mm strip film carrier as well as the 120 film carrier on my Nikon Coolscan 9000. They work very well, as well as the Nikon 120 glass carrier, which costs an arm and a leg. Dust prevention is the key. I don't see any glass grain pattern on any of the 4000 dpi scans.

How do you use AN glass with the FH-869s?

Dante

 

[craygc]

How do you use AN glass with the FH-869s?

Dante

I use it with the FH-869S on the Nikon 9000 as well. Remove the thin rubber strips the film edges sit on; Tighten down that big screw so as to stop the film tensioning side moving; use a single piece of Focalpoint AN glass on top of the film and then you can clip everything down as usual. Obviously one piece of glass has its own caveats but I rarely have flatness issues - especially if the film is concaved from the emulsion side; and you remove two surfaces to keep clean.

 

[bwcolor]

I use it with the FH-869S on the Nikon 9000 as well. Remove the thin rubber strips the film edges sit on; Tighten down that big screw so as to stop the film tensioning side moving; use a single piece of Focalpoint AN glass on top of the film and then you can clip everything down as usual. Obviously one piece of glass has its own caveats but I rarely have flatness issues - especially if the film is concaved from the emulsion side; and you remove two surfaces to keep clean.

Both 1mm and 3mm glass is available. I'm guessing that the 1mm is used with the hinged frame and the 3mm assumes that the hinged frame has been removed. Would this be correct?

 

[Robert Lai]

Craygc has the procedure pretty much as described. The 3mm glass is the anti-Newton glass. The 1mm is a clear glass. In theory, you make a sandwich with the AN glass on top, the film in the middle, and the clear glass below. This insures absolute film flatness. But, it also adds two more glass surfaces to keep meticulously clean.

I find that just having the AN glass on top is usually sufficient, unless the negative is super curly. You would go "bottomless" in this case.

 

[bwcolor]

Thanks, I didn't realize that the 1mm wasn't AN and I didn't think that 4mm could be added and still use the hinged frame...

Very useful thread.

 

[craygc]

The 1mm is a clear glass.

Life must have changed as my Focalpoint AN glass is just under 1mm thick - I bought them in 2008 - and at the time there was no mention of 3mm thick glass.

 

[Dante_Stella]

Life must have changed as my Focalpoint AN glass is just under 1mm thick - I bought them in 2008 - and at the time there was no mention of 3mm thick glass.

Believe you me, 3mm is thick and heavy stuff! I got mine last year.

Dante

 

[philipus]

Sorry to resurface an old thread but does anyone know where one can get AN glass here in Europe? I'm interested in using it with the 35mm carrier on my 9000.

TIA
philip