If not, there are the other suggestions given above. Flatten out the film under some heavy weight and things should be better. It's physics, and some films just have a nasty curl in them that makes things difficult. You can't blame Epson one bit, this is a standard issue with any flatbed scanner regardless of make. Something about Newton's Rings should be highlighted in large print at the beginning of their scanning section in the user's guide, not buried in the trouble shooting section. I'm pretty disappointed with Epson on this. I'll only rescan those pictures worth keeping. I had scanned almost 1,900 negatives and I don't really relish going through them and rescanning the ones that have those cursed Rings. I'm taking a break from scanning for a few days - I want to wait for the weekend, when I'll have more time to test things out. I hope you'll let us know how your project goes. I'm guessing that newer scanners would have that capability too. On your second point, I can't say how all dedicated film scanners work, but the one I used for years - Konica Minolta Elite 5400 II - would preview scan 6 negatives at a time and you could edit each one individually - focus, crop, rotate, adjust colour, etc. I think the carrier held the film flatter when the curl was up rather than down. Turned out the emulsion down scan was noticeably sharper than the others - at edges and center of neg. I tried it here with my Epson 4870 flatbed scanner and a negative strip that is badly curled. It won't take long to make 3 test scans - emulsion up / emulsion down / emulsion down+shim. If I were to get a dedicated negative scanner (which would not have problems with Newton's Rings), how does that work? Is there any sort of preview? How are properly rotated? While I'm on the subject, one thing I really like about the flatbed scanner is that I can see all the negatives at once and rotate them properly, skip the bad pictures, and so on, all in preview, saving me time, effort, and disk space. Epson recommends putting the film in upside down, though. Typically, the subject of my pictures would more likely be towards the middle, I would think. If I shim the holder, then the edges of the negative would more likely be out of focus. so that the center of the negative would have a better chance of being out of focus. shimming the holder - if I put the film in upside down, it will curl away from the sensor. Here is my thought about putting the film upside down vs. It might be better to re-scan those films. For a plain sky like the one in your sample, it wouldn't take long, but if there's a lot of complex detail, then it would be a very slow process.
#Epson scanning upside down Patch
I don't know of any way to do that in Photoshop except the slow way with the clone or patch tools. You asked about retouching the artifacts. If you have a DSLR and a macro lens, you can 'scan' with the camera - you lose DIGITAL ICE dust and scratch reduction. I've never done this, but often wondered about removing the scanner glass entirely. Epson makes a film holder that fits the V700,750,800, and 850 - maybe it could be adapted to fit your V600, or maybe you could improvise something. Raise the film holder by shimming it up higher from the glass - that will affect focus too.Ĭonsider fluid mounting technique. Put the films in the carrier upside down - emulsion down rather than up - but that may result in less than perfect focus, so test carefully before doing too many like that. As FrankieJ and D Cox have already mentioned, the marks are called 'Newton's Rings' and are caused by the film touching the glass.įlatten the films under a weight for a while before scanning.
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