Nikon 8000ED

[TJV]

I'm looking at using a friends Nikon 8000ED scanner to scan 6x7 negs. I was wondering about problems using the standard MF mask keeping the neg flat. I understand that there is a glass mount / mask that can be used but this is way out of my budget! does anyone out there have any tips to get the best results with the standard mask?

Also, I'll probably use Vuescan because I find it give me the best result when scanning 35mm film. Any tips with using this combo?

Tim

 

[Olsen]

I have a Nikon 8000ED and had lots of trouble with un-flat medium format (6 x 6 and 4,5 x 6) negativeswhen using the 'standard' glasless negative holder. So I bought this very expensive glas holder which is far better, but not perfect.

One thing, though...

I noted that my 30 years old negatives that I kept in 'fat' ringbinders for all these years were flat and could be used in the standard negative holder without problems, - most of them, at least. It was the rather new negatives that hadn't had the time to be pressed flat yet that caused trouble.

The trouble is that parts of the negative isn't in focus. It might help to keep the negatives you are about to scan pressed under some heavy books for a while before scanning. Like the bible , - or books of common law, if you have that kind of literature on Cloud Nine.

 

[TJV]

The what? Bible? The only heavy book I know of is Martin Parr's history of the photo book.

Yeah, I assumed that keeping things flat to reduce fall off would be a problem. I guess this is the problem no days, labs are not really geared to handle film anymore. The scans I get from my lab are really poor, over sharpened and lacing in fine detail, colour saturation and depth. Plus I'd never trust them with 120 film! Not on my life!

 

[mfogiel]

I have read about a user who would put the negs in their sleeves, protect them with a few sheets of paper, and put them on a dish warming plate at a low temperature, with some heavy books on top.After a few hours you let it cool and the flattening job is done.

An alternative, as I do it, is to get one of the Doug Fisher's medium format holder anti newton ring glass plates ( I remember they come fairly cheap), take away the flaps from the MF carrier, and press the negs flat with the glass. Look at this link:

http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00J7Lp