Kaskazi Loc: Ontario, Canada

I am scanning older color negative strips - but I don't believe age is relevant to this problem. The frame takes two strips at a time, left and right. I am finding that the strip on the right now has a stripe along it (a recent, last 24 hours development), as shown in the images (one unexposed, one exposed). I can get by using only the left track, but of course this reduces my already slow productivity (scanning at only 2400 dpi).

I am particularly bothered because this is a problem I had with a previous V600 and the reason for replacing it not too long ago.

Does anyone know the cause, and hopefully a fix for this problem?

Thanks in advance for your consideration.

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JD750 Loc: SoCal

So you had the same problem before. Now again. So maybe don't buy another Epson V600?

kmielen Loc: Eastern NC

Did you check the internet for the problem?
Did you try this possible solution?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me2cm8UKWNA

Kaskazi Loc: Ontario, Canada

Thanks so much kmielen. That looks like it should work - I'll try it when my son's around to hold my hand!

Kaskazi Loc: Ontario, Canada

I'd rather ask the Hoggers first

JD750 Loc: SoCal

DWU2 Loc: Phoenix Arizona area

I don't suppose you kept the old scanner? You could practice cleaning it first.

Kaskazi Loc: Ontario, Canada

I did - out of mere procrastination
Good thought - thanks DWU2

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

I sold my V600. I never had that problem with it, but I figured this out. (See my white paper on camera scanning, attached in the download.)

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Kaskazi Loc: Ontario, Canada

Now I've tried it - with great success, I must say. So again, many many thanks to you.
Unbelievable that such an apparently big problem should have such a simple solution, and that Epson should be either so ignorant or so opaquely cynical, as indicated by their reply to a complainant (send it in for service) as reported on another site.

Kaskazi Loc: Ontario, Canada

Good for you. Nice bit of engineering, but my skills never reached such heights.

DebAnn Loc: Toronto

That is not at all helpful, is it? Why answer if you don't have anything constructive to say? There is too much of this going on at the Hog these days.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Not much skill involved. The camera, macro lens, Essential Film Holder, and Viltrox light panel are all off the shelf. I cut some holes in a quarter piece of a half-inch thick railroad board, added some velcro, and had the copy base. The copy stand was the only "engineering" involved, and could have been off the shelf. It may well BE off the shelf in the future, as the PVC contraption I built is not easily usable for copying prints of various sizes.

There are as many variations on this theme as there are people who use it. Back in the 1960s to 1980s, there were Forox cameras, Oxberry modified Nikons, Double-M Industries modified Nikons (I still own one), Bowens Illumitrans (I had one), and inverted enlarger color heads with vernier caliper controlled "slide compounds". These were used to copy slides, negatives, and transparencies for multi-image shows and creative special effects for print projects.

YouTube is full of ideas for home brew film copiers. There's even a plan or two that converts a toilet paper roll core into a mount for a slide and a smartphone! And Nikon fans will find a Nikon ES-2 that works with a 40mm macro lens on DX Nikons, or a 60mm macro lens on FX Nikons.

So long as you can keep film FLAT and PARALLEL to the sensor in the camera, and use a color-accurate light source (reflected direct sun bounced off of white paper is excellent), you can get great results with a 1:1 capable macro lens.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Good to know this worked for you!

Yes, cleaning the sensors and the glass surfaces is always a good idea before a scanning session.

peekaboo

Are you loading them the same way? I've never had that problem. Make sure the film strips are to the left.