Epson 1660 & film scan

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New to the group and hope this hasn't been asked and answered too many times.

Have a Epson 1660 and have started trying to scan negatives and have run into to
problems. Have a lot of non-35mm negs I want to scan and have made some mats
to locate the film. On some smaller format film I've been successful but have
met with failure trying to scan mid-format film, 120-620. No mater what I've
tried film has never been recognized. One experiment tried was with mat for
larger film was in place along with film, I placed the mat for the smaller film
on top and then tried to scan. This time film was recognized. This has gotten
me to believe there is some limit in the scanner itself that limits the max size
of the film.

Can anyone confirm or am I still not doing something right?

Mickey
 
- said:
I am not familiar with your version of Epson software but all that you *may*
need to do is to turn off the auto cropping function (might be called
thumbnail mode) and then just manually draw your cropping marquees around
each frame.

Doug
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Thanks for the reply. When source is selected as film, color pos, neg, or
monochrome, no other options are available like there is when using in
reflective mode, i.e. "flatbed". It's entirely up to the HW/SW to find the film
& isolate images.

The 1660 uses a narrow (abt 2.5" wide) light source in the center of the lid.
It should be wide enough to fully light up mid-format film. Not sure why that a
neg placed in the holder will not work but when another holder (mat) for
narrower film is laid on top of other holder, the scanner then finds, scans and
recognizes multi images. There must be something HW/SW wise that doesn't like
the wider format light shinning through. I can't think of any other reason for
this problem.

Mickey
 
Mickey said:
Thanks for the reply. When source is selected as film, color pos, neg, or
monochrome, no other options are available like there is when using in
reflective mode, i.e. "flatbed". It's entirely up to the HW/SW to find the film
& isolate images.

The 1660 uses a narrow (abt 2.5" wide) light source in the center of the lid.
It should be wide enough to fully light up mid-format film. Not sure why that a
neg placed in the holder will not work but when another holder (mat) for
narrower film is laid on top of other holder, the scanner then finds, scans and
recognizes multi images. There must be something HW/SW wise that doesn't like
the wider format light shinning through. I can't think of any other reason for
this problem.

Mickey
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I have a Perfection 1650 and I believe that it may be necessary for the
scanner to "see" the cut-out above the slide/transparency holder (with the
"no-entry" sign beside it

Traveller
 
Traveller said:
I have a Perfection 1650 and I believe that it may be necessary for the
scanner to "see" the cut-out above the slide/transparency holder (with the
"no-entry" sign beside it

Traveller
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Have just received word from Epson and am being told this scanner and my 1640
will not recognize film wider than 36mm. Need to purchase and different model
if larger film formats are needed. Damn!

Mickey
 
Mickey said:
Have just received word from Epson and am being told this scanner and my 1640
will not recognize film wider than 36mm. Need to purchase and different model
if larger film formats are needed. Damn!

Mickey
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Ah! Things you wish you had known......
If you (and I ) had only known that the Epson 1650 (but not 1650 Photo
perversely enough) could be used with an optional adapter that handled film
up to 4" x 5". If you still have the user's manual (came on CD) see what
it says for the non - Photo version of your 1640. Don't know about quality
of course. And it's withdrawn anyway.....

Incidentally I now think it likely that the cut-out is used to detect the
white balance of the scanner lamp.

Traveller
 
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