Scanning Artifacts

Hi all,

 

I've recently begun developing my own film and have bought a Epson Perfection v550 to help me digitize my negatives. However, on frames where there are extremely dark areas, the scans appear to be filled with black squares. I thought it may have been a compression issue but the artifacts appear on .jpeg and .tiff scans. If anyone has ever seen anything like these and may know a fix, I'd be grateful.

 

Thanks

 

 

Take a small, but bright, LED flashlight and shine it at an angle and very close to the bottom glass of your scanner. Look to see if the glass has a deposit over it caused by the plastic parts out gassing over time. Your black "squares" do not have the appearance of fungi, which shows up as a fuzzy grey smudge on my V600 glass. I am "guessing" that this negative is 120 square due to the developing artifacts notable on the margins, both vertical & horizontal. Your developing procedure might also be causing the "squares". Aloha, Bill

Don't try to use infrared dust and scratch reduction with silver-based B&W film. It just doesn't work.

 

Turn off the ICE functions!

What Joe said.

Also, pushing up contrast, and other single factors will create these kinds of artifacts, not just the ICE witch's brew of functions.

 

I confess that my first response to 'scanning artifacts' brought this to mindo_O

Pedernales point from north central Kansas

Edited January 3, 2020 by JDMvW