making film holder for Perfection V600 scanner

<p>I’ve bought Epson Perfection V600 scanner from ebay from seller who ‘conveniently forgot’ to mention that all film holders are missing. Frankly, auction price was so low I don’t want to return scanner back to seller.<br>

However, I am shooting 120 film with makeshift 6x17cm camera, so it looks like I need ‘Brownie’ film holder. Also, I’ve got very limited budget.<br>

Question to this scanner users: since I am planning to make a film holder myself either from paper/carton/black PVC: do I need to respect distance from film surface to scanner's glass or just make it as near as possible and perfectly parallel to the scanner's glass?<br>

Will V600 auto-focus or will it expect to find film surface at certain <strong>fixed</strong> distance? <strong>What this distance is?</strong><br>

I am sure I can achieve it by adding layers of paper to holder's frame thickness… or am I living in illusions?<br>

Thank you</p>

<p>I'm pretty sure it focuses at a fixed distance. I would look into the lomo or better imaging film holders to save your self a large amount of trouble.</p>

<p>thank you, John. if you have such scanner model V600 - do you mind measure your film holder distance to glass with calipers? If this is not too much of the trouble, please ?</p>

<p>If you want to try wet mounting, this holder is cheap and will hold any film. http://myfilmstuff.blogspot.ca/2010/04/5-wet-mount.html</p>

<p>thank you, Peter.<br>

article say "To scan, place the holder onto the scanner resting on the cardboard legs". So, can I ask what is the thickness of the legs and what is the thickness of the glass, so I can understand what is distance from scanner's glass to the film?<br>

or you did not care because you user not-V600 scanner that can auto-focus?</p>

<p>Spare parts Item 10 and 30 are the film holders for 120 and 35mm. Both together are under $15 total.<br>

http://www.compassmicro.com/parts_search3.cfm</p>

 

<p>Select Epson>Scanners>V600 to get to the page to see these parts.</p>

<p>KC: The thickness of the glass doesn't really matter beceause you will be scanning through the acetate and not the glass. The thickness of the cardboard is not known beceuse more/less are added until a good focus has been reached. It can be anywhere between 1-3mm.</p>

<p>I'm sorry if that note was a little unclear. I wrote it a few years ago.</p>

 

you can buy holders very cheap or just make your own.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Epson-Perfection-V600-Negative-Positive/dp/B011Z47MCI/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1467244699&sr=8-3&keywords=epsom+perfection+v600

<p>paul. The link you provided does <strong>not</strong> show the correct holders. There is no 120 film holder. I cannot tell from the picture that the holders in the picture are correct for 35mm. Kaugu, you should use the link I posted above and call the supplier to verify the parts I mentioned on my post above.</p>

thats weird, it says v600. oh well... yours are cheaper n he gets the idea they are available if

he googles it.

<p>'he' googled it and found :-)<br>

<br /> part ID:<strong> 1516326</strong> - Holder Assembly, Brownie for the Epson Perfection <strong>V600</strong> Photo Scanner<br>

<br /> just what I need for my odd 120-type with 6x18cm custom format<br /> thanks everyone for guidance!</p>

<p>I agree with the others. Just buy them from Epson instead of going through the trouble to make your own. They're cheap enough to get. I was surprised when I had to replace my wet mounting unit that disintegrated from the chemicals (found out it's very, very similar to camping lamp fluid...in fact it's probably the same) and also a slide mount unit that broke.<br>

Just go to one of these recommended sites and buy them: http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/supAdvice.jsp?UseCookie=yes&type=highlights&noteoid=153590</p>

<p>scan directly from glass, see how it works. works for me very well on a V500 ...</p>

<p>I've tried scanning directly on the glass but the negative curl was pretty bad so I tried a glass to flatten it and got good results and that worked except for the newton rings it produced. Someone mentioned raising the film around the thickness of a nickel. That worked ok but a pain making and using a mask so I bought a negative carrier from Epson. <vbgrin> Worth it eh ? Anti Newton glass is hard to find and expensive but should work just fine to flatten negatives. I did not see any bluriness when I scanned with the anti newton glass . The only problem was the newton rings. I'm still looking for a way to make a film holder better than Epson and I'm getting close.<br>

Bill</p>

<p>Camping light fluid is the same as lighter fluid. We used to buy It at gas stations during my youth at 35 cents a gallon, also was used as an inexpensive cleaning fluid. Can be pretty dangerous stuff but I still use it for cleaning and store it with care.</p>

<p>Bill</p>