Coolscan 8000: Scanning long Film Strips

I'm still learning my way around my new to me Coolscan 8000, and I've already run into a serious problem with it.

Over the years, I've shot 645, 6x6, and 6x7, but I've been most prolific(and thanks to my love of my Hasselblad, continue to be most prolific) in 6x6. The vast majority of my 6x6s were cut into 3 strips of 4 frames each, and filed in Printfile pages as such.

I've run out of the 3-strip pages at times, and also have cut the film into 4 strips of 3 frames each-fortunately those work.

The problem, though, is that the standard 8000/9000 120 strip holder is not long enough for a 4 frame strip. I can't let it overhang, either, as the locks will punch through and damage the film for a strip that's too long.

Is there an easy solution to this, or do I just need to buck up and buy a glass carrier for the scanner? There's one on Ebay now, but it's nearly half the price of what I spent on the complete scanner.

It's a shame I'm running into this, as the results from the scanner so far have blown me away-they're much better than I've ever been able to get with my V700, although obviously film flatness is a never ending issue a glassless 120 carrier....

The film strip needs to be able to fit in the holder, whether it's one neg, two negs or three negs. A fourth 6x6 neg on a strip will have to be cut off. There are 6x6 storage sleeve holders for filing 12 off 6x6 single negs

A glass carrier will still only allow three 6x6 negs at a time, so to keep costs down you can buy two pieces of glass from Better Scanning I think it is. One piece is ANR and the other is plain glass but very thin and not ANR. They flatten the film strips but maybe I'm not using mine correctly because I still get Newton Rings. I've been placing the thin glass on the bottom, and the thicker ANR glass on the top, with tape holding them down if the film is excessively curved

The clamps on the holder are removed before using those glass pieces

The glass carrier won't handle a strip of 4 6x6 frames either. I think the maximum size is 6x17 cm. It will handle a single frame nicely, keeping the frame much flatter than in an open carrier. I loosen the latch a little and tap the holder until the film is straight.

You have two choices. Cut the long strips into 3+1, or use a flatbed scanner.

Thanks guys-reading around a bit, I found that a lot of folks were simply laying AN glass in the glassless holder to help keep the film flat.

I have a sheet that came with my Better Scanning 120 holder for my Epson, so removed the film locks and found that the sheet of glass would lay flat if I removed one of the screws holding the sliding rail down. I was able to lay a 4 strip frame on there with the AN glass on top of it, and get an edge-to-edge sharp scan(something I've yet been able to do). The strip has to be manually removed and rotated to scan all frames, but at least I can scan it without cutting my film and ending up with a bunch of odd single frames.

And, of course, from now on I'll be only cutting into strips of 3(fortunately I think I'm almost out of the 4 frame pages).

Here's a not particularly exciting quickie scan as a proof of concept:

And the holder with glass

Sounds like a good solution. Is the etched side down, facing the film?

Yes, it is.