Scanner for medium format?

[Terry Christian]

I have a V600, and found it to be a nice "sweet spot" if you're only going to be scanning 35mm and medium format, and not 4x5 or above. At about $200, it's a lot cheaper than a V700!

(You can do 4x5, if you lay them directly on the glass, scan in two passes, and use the Automerge function in Photoshop.)

 

[Rogier]

I wound up taking the top glass completely out on my HP Scanjet G4050. The only reason it's there is to keep stuff from hitting (interfering with) the light source for transparency scans. Pulling the glass out wasn't too difficult. I had to be patient when separating the double-sided tape from the lid. I had to also eventually cut the brace for the calibration area as it warped without the glass to support it and got in the way of the light source head.

I want to do this with my Canoscan 8800F but wanted to practice first on a dead scanner.
How are the results without the glass?
Removing the glass will also make room to create something to lower the negative holder down to where the surface was. Brining it into focus 🙂

 

[cabbiinc]

I want to do this with my Canoscan 8800F but wanted to practice first on a dead scanner.
How are the results without the glass?
Removing the glass will also make room to create something to lower the negative holder down to where the surface was. Brining it into focus 🙂

I only pulled the glass from the lid. For getting into focus I just placed the negs on the scanning bed glass itself, no holders. It's far more in focus that way than in the holders. I've thought about cutting the glass from the lid down to be able to flatten the negs on the glass, but then I bought a nikon scanner and haven't looked back. Taking a scanner apart isn't that hard though (until you get to the scan head and all that but to clean glass it's not that bad). Just mind your parts and put it all back together the way it came apart.

Edit:
Also keep in mind I'm talking about an HP scanner and you're talking about a Canon. I've also cleaned the insides of a Microtek Scanmaker 5 and it was relatively the same situation, even bigger (makes an Epson scanner look small).