Which Glass-Covered Holder for scanning 6x7 film?

[Niels]

Greetings all!

First post on this forum, am surprised myself of being here, but feeling good..

Point is I "accidently" bought a Fuji GW670 III (on its way) and (ohh my) a Nikon Coolscan 8000. Subconsciousness drove me I think.

However I want to get a glass-covered holder for the scanner as well - and have 2 possibilities: the FH-869G and the FH-869GR, the latter with rotating holder.

Which to choose? Good advice will be appreciatet!

PS: The GW670 should be here next week, just in time for a certain wonderful autum scene. And it gets prettier day by day. Untill the first storm that is.

Kind Regards

 

[jordanstarr]

I just use a sheet of ANR or Anti-glare glass on the 120 holder that it comes with. I popped out the clamps and just lay the glass on top. Save yourself the $100 on the holder, the glass is about $5. I have a friend who installs windows, so I got a few pieces for free, but you can probably get a piece at your local window store.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

The rotating holder. The non-rotating one is a pain in the ass to use. You have to stick little pieces of black tape it comes with to the bottom glass to form a mask for the neg size; not doing so causes newtons rings. The rotating one comes with presized plastic masks that are not sticky, just plasic, for each 120 format size. Much easier. You can only scan one image at a time, but that's not a bother...you'll rarely need a lot of frames from each roll.

 

[charjohncarter]

I have the betterscan holder and am satisfied, I don't know if they make one for your model. I have a plastic strip that I made for my scanner. It's purpose is to maintain the negative square on the glass flat bed then I use the ANR glass from my holder to flatten the negative. Mostly I use the betterscan holder but sometimes on really curled 35 or 120 (4x5 but I have to make two images and stitch) I use the above method. I'm sure there is a focusing problem but for the web I can't tell the difference.